Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-07-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Viper Pit
Pros: If you kill your number you will make decent coin.  Many clients don't like Oracle's culture but it is a necessary evil.
Cons: Where to begin?  First off, I believe Larry must have had a bunch of older brothers and grew up impoverished.  Every bit of the culture is set to force almost every pillar against all other pillars in a Darwinistic play that is bordering on insane.  There is absolutely MINIMAL collaboration between license teams.  My middleware team was always ad odds with the tech team.  Plus there are multiple services organizations--and all of them have the exact same message and literally spend all their time just trying to position themselves against their own company.  Why would you have 3-4 circles all completely overlapping in message?  What a waste of overhead!  If this is done simply to try and make the individual reps stronger by spending most of their time infighting, it is a major mistake.  Fire the reps who can't handle the job and get everyone working together.  Skip the viper pit step in the middle.