Company: Oracle
Date: 2013-03-10
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

If u are in sales, ensure u have good key accounts to start otherwise die a premature death. Intense regional pressure!
Pros: - Name. It's good to have it in your resume. 
- Reputation - reliable products (albeit expensive products and arrogant at it)  
- Cool modern office with nice pantry (hehe)
- Laidback working environment - no punch cards, some operations people go for lunch for 3 hours! , of course sales people most of the times are not in the office. (shhhh...!)
- Every permanent staff gets an AMEX card for travelling and claims
- Training usually in Singapore or other country and you get to stay in 5 stars hotel! 
- Great major clients exposure
- COMMISSIONS! You get paid at BOOKING not delivery. (most department)
Cons: I'm viewing from sales perspectives : 
- Regional pressure is tremendous 
- Sales target can be very tough to achieve if you don't have the right sets of accounts to start with
- You need to be self motivated as the managers are middle managers who knows how to talk more than they know how to do stuff
- Too many conference calls at odd time
- VERY buereucratic
- PROCESS driven - (shared service centre in India will check your documents (like PO) for tiniest details of compliance 
- High turn over in sales jobs (you will meet IBM, SAP guys here and vice versa too I guess, like some kind of job exchange programme hehe)