Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-12-10
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

SaaS Sales
Pros: - Too much to sell due to consistent product acquisitions by Oracle 
- Easy access to market as the brand " Oracle"  speaks for itself 
- too many sales reps ensuring high territory and industry coverage
Cons: - HR is powerless / impotent 
- hiring is not on merit but nationality specially in OD ECEMEA 
- no transparent employee referral in place as HR gives priority to the nationality of the aspirant and not talent. 
- customers are not looked after well after sales so it is easy to sell SAP, Microsoft or any competitor product to an existing Oracle customer the moment Oracle makes a sell as in majority of the deals the sales rep stops responding to customer mere next day onward. no wonder the so called "customer success managers" are not paid consistently as promised.
- successful customer go live is rare so are the employee performance appraisals, e.g. an Asian sales rep. with over 10 years relevant work experience is paid on par with a 2 year old European / Egyptian rep. 
- promotions not on merit but sheer favoritism and language the  sales rep. speaks
- accounts / territory is hijacked from a deserving sales rep. without his / her knowledge
- inbound leads are only passed on to the non deserving reps in the region hence the customer conversion is lower than average industry standards in spite of so many prospect inquiries.
*** Advice to aspirants :- apply Egyptian passport before applying to Oracle ECEMEA ***