Company: Oracle
Date: 2019-04-07
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Austin BDC and later Account Manager
Pros: I came in through the Class Of program and made almost of my friends in Austin thanks to it. The training was a fun 3 week vacation in California but I heard they don’t do it there anymore. The compensation you receive out of college isn’t bad comparatively. Nice office.
Cons: Recruiters do a great job at selling the BDC role. They make it sound a lot more valuable than it really is. You’re job is to set meetings through cold calling/cold emailing and that’s it. You hope you work with a nice account manager that helps you log in Monopoly money and get a nice bonus at the end of the quarter. After 8 months I got promoted into an Account Manager role in the tech space. The role is all luck and timing. There were about 70 reps in the organization about 6 or 7 will hit their yearly number because they have accounts that have to buy Oracle. Oracle technology (especially in the cloud space) is lacking tremendously to competitors and customers know that. Management is dreadful. Direct managers micromanage intensely and make your job way harder than it has to be. I’m convinced my director’s only job was to walk around desks asking if certain deals have come in. Providing no guidance or coaching whatsoever. I know this seems cliche to say but at Oracle you are truly just a number. They way over hire and make it impossible to move up in your career in aspect if you decide to stay. Keep Oracle as a last resort after graduating college. Go ahead and apply because they’ll give everyone offers but really try to keep it as a plan B if other opportunities fall through.