Company: Oracle
Date: 2019-12-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Not a Place to Grow
Pros: Great brand name and resume builder! Good base pay and learning opportunities. Fun environment to build friendships.
Cons: Bad leadership and bad environment for employees to build a career. In my exit interview I gave some thoughts on how to improve the compensation structure in the BDC org, which was a huge reason I left, and how management can better retain the talent they were hemorrhaging because they asked. The director re-framed what I said and wrote down that I "do not understand the compensation structure." Managers belittle and do not care. I signed on to an offer saying there was average $20K in bonus commissions, and that is just a lie. No one there could hit anywhere near $20k unless they were the absolute top .01% in the best territories and had a LOT of help from their senior partner reps. The sales department has a very individualistic/ loan wolf mentality. I was not seen as an asset, and everyone has to fight and claw their way to a better position. The best way to progress and not get left in the BDC grind was a lateral move through close connections alone or going to another company altogether (roughly 50% of my class did). Managers do not "manage" because they don't know how since there is no real, tangible manager training and support. The problem starts from top leaders who care more about building deals than people management and support.  The 3 stars are for the good base pay, the brand name and resume benefits working there provides, plus the learning opportunities.