Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-04-13
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Corporate Work Environment - not fun, but you can make good money
Pros: You can make really good money on a monthly basis based on the size deals you close. You can also move into other roles or teams based on your success within your current role. Work hard, play hard mentality. The company also has a lot of outreach programs to stay involved and network, including a women's network.
Cons: You will be surrounded by mostly male fresh-out-of-college kids who know nothing about sales or how to act professionally. Moving up to other roles is extremely competitive and there are a lot of politics involved, so don't burn any bridges with any of your "bros." 

The corporate culture within is also very cutthroat with reps calling into your same accounts to sell your customer their product because at the end of the day, each rep is only concerned with closing their numbers and getting paid. Also, territories and accounts change at the start of every fiscal year, which means you don't get to build report with your customers for more than a year before you have to start from scratch again.
 
Oracle's Women's Network is also ironically run by the CEO, who also happened to be fired previously from his last company for a sexual harassment lawsuit against him - all public information on the web.