Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-06-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Oracle was great in some areas, in others... not so much
Pros: *Great company name, recognized everywhere. Great products. Base salary was ok... commission was way better, when you closed deals. 
*People were great, most inside sales reps were fairly young anywhere from 23-32 in that range which was a lot of fun. I made a lot of great friends there. 
*Most people are really willing to help you, except the managers. 
*Benefits are amazing, really great. The health insurance was partially paid for by Oracle. 
*On-site gym was great, but overwhelmed by new class of hires after work... not a lot of room for the rest of us. 
*Because of the size of the company, you really could go into any org you want to across many different pillars, however, beware if you were hired with a fairly low salary, your raise will not be great..
Cons: *Senior management - unfortunately managers are promoted solely based on their numbers, which doesn't gauge whether someone will be a good manager or not. The two managers I had in the role, were not helpful at all when it came to ramping up in the role, knew nothing about the technology we were selling and basically made us figure out everything on our own...very frustrating, especially when you are new to the role
*Call stats were ridiculous, everyone faked them. there is no way you are able to make 150 (real) calls a week and have 10 hours of talk time.. just really unattainable. 
*We would be punished for not hitting our metrics the previous week by having to work through lunch to make calls...unpaid at that.. almost sure that is illegal and is an HR violation.. 
*Territory splits were incredibly frustrating, especially when your number would  basically stay the same as well, like trying to squeeze water out from a rock.. almost impossible. 
*Always super stressed out... just not a fun environment to work in. 
*The Oracle systems for sales were absolutely horrible... nothing worked, no one knew how to use them.. Oracle is a software company for god's sake! 
*Tier 1 approvers for sales discounts.... internal fighting with approvers who didn't understand the technology or the market and would say no to every well thought out argument for any type of discount about 50%... Oracle has the most expensive products on the market which is a huge disadvantage, the extra discount is one of the major things that would keep us in the running during a deal.... almost impossible to get anything approved, regardless of deal size.