Company: Oracle
Date: 2019-09-16
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Misleading Compensation
Pros: Oracle's recruitment team must be fairly talented as many of my initial coworkers were smart, fun, hardworking people. Networking opportunities are great. If you get your work done, most managers are truly flexible with your hours, which isn't as common as you would think in the Bay Area.
Cons: The attrition rate for recent college grads hovered above 70% at the one year mark for many of the sales teams during my tenure. Although the recruiters were bringing in good people, those same people were very likely to quickly leave. A lot of the unhappiness stemmed directly from a lack of transparency in the compensation structure. The base salary was simply not enough to live in the Bay Area, and very often folks "hit their number" but were not paid out anywhere near what has been indicated to them by their managers. There were huge discrepancies in expected bonus versus what was actually received. A great example: one quarter the product we "sold" hit a development roadblock on the engineering side and failed to ship causing my entire team to lose their sales commissions. This meant we had to attempt to live half a year on a virtually unlivable salary, with the possibility of the same scenario repeating. Most of my team left after that.