Company: Oracle
Date: 2020-04-09
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Big place, experiences can vary.
Pros: I spent nine years there; financially they're stable, and I was able to close some huge deals.  Some great people.  In the early days it was fun; if you closed a deal you got paid on the 15th of the next month and they were very lucrative commissions.   You can also move around quite a bit, get a variety of experiences.
Cons: Bureaucracy can be brutal.  They limit (cap) sales commissions and the comp plans are not what they used to be.  Territories are very unequal.  So much depends on whether or not your manager likes you and what accounts you get.  Products need to be updated faster.

Lots of dog-eat-dog among the reps and managers.  Larry pits teams against each other.  I felt more fearful of internal teams than of my competition.  It is a very mean-spirited culture in sales there.  I was one of the top reps yet I hated it the internal fighting.  At Oracle, you have to stand your ground and a lot of people won't like you if you do.  People expect to be able to run over you and if you don't let them they diss you.  Also, a lot of difficulties getting paid due to multiple people getting paid on a deal and a log time to get paid after a deal.