Company: Oracle
Date: 2013-01-21
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Senion Sales Manager and Trainer
Pros: Looks good on your resume - In sales if you get a good patch, you can make good money. Work with some very smart people, core DB EE is still best on the market. Great gym at HQ in Redwood Shores.
Cons: Too many to mention, complete lack of leadership and responsibility. As political and nepotistic as you can possibly get. Oracle is the 'Automatic company' Everything is self-service and HR are faceless ghosts who's only remit is to prevent Oracle from being sued. Any interaction with HR, or any questions are met with hostile and condescending emails with endless links to endless broken systems. The very basic tasks that HR should provide, letters of employment, on-time pay checks, etc, are completely beyond Oracle administration. Engineers seem to be treated a little better, but if you're in sales, you'll work in a truley terrible environment. Most people hate their jobs because Oracle customers HATE Oracle. So political it's absurd, pathetic and amateur training for managers, it's all personal connections and ''managing-up'' to get ahead,   Hunger Games' type sales strategy, just hire more and more sales staff, and let them fight it out. Worst of all, most sales staff are paid way below the industry standard, and accounting frequently with-hold commission payments as a tactic to push people out. You are always one month away from being fired in Oracle, and people just disappear weekly with no explanation from management. Sales reps are cannon-fodder for angry customers, and get abused by both customers and Oracle senior management, Oracle treats customers and staff with contempt and arrogance.