Company: Oracle
Date: 2019-10-29
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Business Development Rep
Pros: 9-5 Job
You pretty much can't get fired after your probation (literally)
Your colleagues share the pain
It's work and travel for semi-adults: work 9-5 without any major responsibilities and then go drink with your international friends.
Cons: Cafeteria: supposedly cheaper than buying food elsewhere. (Spoiler: It isn't)
Managers: Ranging from older managers who don't know what they are doing, to younger managers who don't know what they are doing.
Compensation: The topic managers and especially director level know are most important to you, but they REALLY don't want to talk about it. In Short; Not competitive and they more than likely will underpay you somehow. 
Training: Too much on the wrong topics. 95 percent of the training is based on the US market and its practices. More than likely not applicable to your market. 
Self Service Environment: Oracles big mantra. Means you help yourself, because no one else will. And they do mean that. If you expect help from managers, you'll be pointed towards trainings or asked to ask someone else. Good Luck.
Culture: Apart from your peers, no one wants to hear your opinion. If you got one, keep it to yourself, it's a waste trying to change anything. 
Misc: 
1) Any and pretty much all inappropriate things you might imagine would get someone fired, won't get you fired here. Antisemite remarks, harassment of any kind are no reason for Oracle to give you a warning let alone fire someone. 
2) Not performing will mean you go on performance improvement. Because not performing is a reason to potentially be let got. Not any of the reasons above. 
3) The few attempts at BDC's trying to establish a culture will be eradicated by management immediately through some thoroughly schizophrenic behavior. Example: "Decorate your desks to show team spirit and individualism." (one week later a corporate bigwig shows up) "tear down these hideous decorations and clean your desks"
4) don't ever question your target, training or anything put in front of you. Accept, nod and perform. 
5) You will constantly be pushed into trainings, meetings, huddles, 1on1's and other completely useless assembly. This is to battle your 'downtime' (time not spent on the phone). They do not grasp the concept of work that doesn't include the use of a telephone. 
6) They go to a level of analysis to check your activity levels that borderlines on invasive. Yet, should you question your targets, you will be told that such 'granular' analysis isn't being done for targets. 
7) You have mandatory vacation days, which will be approved, but will also be reviewed and potentially revoked, should you not perform. So you book holidays in advance, take your HR demanded minimum days off, and should you not be on target, they might tell you you can't go. 

By now you should see that it's probably better to get work as a North Korean farmer. It's not a joke how big of a joke this company is. Go work somewhere else.