Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-08-02
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Sales Consultant
Pros: The job itself is fun, you are a product expert supporting sales representatives (inside and field) and get to have conversations around how people are running their business and where their inefficiencies lie. The product demonstrations are easy to learn. Some other pros:
-Autonomy - as long as you get your work done and perform well during sales calls, you're left alone
-Benefits - Oracle has nice health benefits and 401k matching
-Flexibility - hours are not strictly 9-5
Cons: Because it is a huge corporation, the culture has a corporate feel. The job is to support the sales teams, so if the sales teams are not selling, you are not busy. While there are a lot of resources to become a better sales consultant, the information is hard to find. Some other cons are:
-Promotion - it is a slow moving process due to the big company workflow process
-Pay - the pay is under market value