Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-08-04
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Largest Kool-Aid Manufacturing Plant in the World
Pros: - Good segue to another job
- Good work/life balance (depending on if your manager is a micromanager)
- Extremely difficult to get fired
Cons: - Can't imagine any job paying less than what Oracle pays
- WAYYYYY too much kool-aid, whose irony is compounded by the fact that there is so much turnover from the people passing it out. Masters of propaganda trying to pseudointellectually justify the job as a satisfying career (it's lead gen, it sucks). Also, management brags about making extraordinary amounts of money when it is so obvious that nobody does
- Any time someone makes money, they find every BS reason to claw commission back from extremely ambiguously worded comp plan. And don't even get me started on next year's Comp Plans when you do "well"...
- Incompetent management/internal software tools. Things that you would imagine are very simple and should take no more than 30 minutes end up taking weeks. Generating an Ordering Document is probably the most stressful task ever. The vast majority of companies outside of Oracle use more advanced versions of Oracle software than does Oracle. Ironic huh?
- Your income potential is a complete crapshoot. Usually in teams, only one or two accounts have ALL of the good accounts bundled together, so that person makes all of the money. Also, territories are cut so small (some people even have one account, imagine that) that, even at a leisurely pace, you can reasonably talk to every major decision maker in 4-5 months.
- Coming to Oracle will be a black hole in your career. You will be held hostage, learn no important/relevant skills (many of the tasks are esoteric to Oracle's broken processes and non-transferrable)