Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-02-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Account Manager
Pros: Major Footprint, Name Recognition,  Leader in core competencies
Cons: Oracle is always looking for a way/loophole not to pay people for the work they've done, while the Top Executive continue to receive multi-million dollar bonuses year over year.  Compensation drives behavior and Oracle seems to have a way of de-incentivizing its salespeople from working hard on behalf of the company.  99%  of the people that I know that in sales are in it for 1 reason,  to make as much money as they possibly can and Oracle is very effective at killing a salesperson's hopes & dream with its deceptive compensation plans (ie - caps on compensation).  The other con is Oracle has been drinking its own kool-aid too long.  Regardless of its current market share customers are actively exploring ways to get off Oracle's platform because of its pricing model.  I had a customer tell me once "Oracle doesn't have customers, they have hostages".  I also question Oracle's late arrival to the Cloud and it's strategy in becoming a leader in the cloud computing industry because Oracle continues to cut investments in the core tenants of cloud infrastructure (Storage, Solaris, and SPARC).  Oracle will never be competitive in the x86 market but through the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, they were instantly the leaders in the non-x86 hardware space.