Company: Oracle
Date: 2011-01-26
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

No Security, No Career Growth, No Learning, Not Worthy...
Pros: The only benefit of being in the Oracle consulting is that company has decent health benefits structure owing to the huge number of employees.
Cons: Leaving the one Pro above, everything else is a downside. The different groups in Oracle function on their own, and competing and damaging other groups for their profits. I was unfortunately in the consulting group to face the customers with the HRMS suite of products.  And honestly there are no good products in Oracle Ebusiness Suite with the exception of financials. Being lowest in the hierarchy makes you take lot of heat. Consulting is the worst performing division of Oracle apparently. The field consultants are the ones who feel the heat of the bad products. 
The only part of consulting that makes money is the consulting sales people. They get commissions based on the engagements with various projects. They are no better than used-car sales people - and can go to any extent to play with consultants. They place one consultant against the other with the customers, and humiliate the consultants. Their only motto is to make the commission on the engagements. This can be noticeably seen with sales people helping small and medium businesses. The large customers usually are referred to the partners or independent contractors. The project managers mint money on these large scale projects.
On the whole, the consultants suffer with enormous travel, bad working conditions at the customer locations, and hence most of the good consultants leave after spending a few years. Those who cannot risk to venture out stay back. On the whole the Oracle consulting's success rate on the projects is even less than 50%.
There is no job security in consulting, no career advancement opportunities as the cost center managers do not encourage in-class trainings owing to save money. All you can get to learn is from some online learnings if you are really interested and motivated. I spent 5 years in Oracle consulting, the last 2 was due to the bad job market conditions and felt such a waste of career years.