Company: Oracle
Date: 2019-11-22
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Oh, boy. What a mistake. But at least it looks good on the CV
Pros: You'll meet great colleagues there, a really good bunch. Tied together by the same semi-awful experience working at Oracle Digital in Dublin. 

The new office is quite a stunner. Great facilities, light, enough space, clean, eco-friendly, so-so canteen. 

You'll learn outbound prospecting with little to none supporting tools. 

Oracle still has a good reputation for producing strong sales people in the world. So your tenure here will look good on your CV. Just not within Ireland, everyone knows Oracle.

If you want to progress, just stay with the company. Eventually you'll be promoted.

Best work-life balance of any job out there.
Cons: The lies, the micro- and senior management, compensation/bonus, the coaching/training

Oracle tell  you quite a story of how they work, how you can work, about compensation and bonuses. Take it with a grain of salt and be very, very critical. When they offer you a relocation package make sure to very closely read the terms. If you stay less than two years, you might end up with a couple of grand in debt and given the fluctuation of people running back out of Oracle, that's a real possibility for you.

You will be micro-managed, if you're lucky you get the odd more lenient manager. Generally, (senior) management doesn't care about your opinion, better play game. Many managers have no management experience and shouldn't be handling people. Leads to big frustrations and high fluctuation within Oracle Digital. Motivation consequently is low, people share the bad vibes. 

Depending on your territory and market, you'll barely see a bonus, unless you start sandbagging, making deals etc. Just grow the pipeline. You'll have almost no helpful tool to do your job, which is mostly cold calling. No active marketing in Europe means no inbound leads. 

Coaching and training is a big one in Oracle. But they fail to do so. Coaching team is not really generating real value, training will not prepare you for C-level interactions. 

Poor experience overall.