Company: Oracle
Date: 2010-12-03
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Oracle were promotions are based on your lack ability to preform in your current role
Pros: Good Basic 
If you join the company at the right level you can have the possibility to make a lot of money. 
Good benefits package
Cons: Lack of transparency in the decisions to promote made by management which were clearly made on your ability to be liked by the management team and not performance in current role.

Some managers not even allowed the freedom to make their own hiring decisions which led to a bad environment 

The title of manager given too freely many of the managers I personally worked with were really team leaders with the title of manager, this is also true of Directors really being managers.

Total lack of ability on the managers part to be transparent about targets. leave it ambiguous and it is easy to mislead the reps and promote the people they like without question.

People with no people skills being promoted to management despite being a destructive influence. 

There seemed to be an agenda in the company that if they could not fire you for a really good reason, they would promote you to management and move you around leaving a trail of destruction in your wake. 

HR never seemed to want to deal with the hard cases unless it they had no other choice and their were completely clear grounds for disciplinary action like exposing yourself in the office. This is true of management also PLUS this had the unfortunate consequence of having a detrimental effect on the good members of staff that were left to deal with others ineptitude.

All in all this is about Oracle Dublin I have no knowledge that this happens anywhere else.

It was always clear in the month previous that someone was going to be promoted as they would win a prize for just doing the basics of their job and this would be made a big deal of by awarding prizes etc 
At that point everyone else knew that the prizewinner was getting promoted despite having spent the 6 months previous not coming close to their targets.


This company is all about who you know, not how good you are at your job or how hard you work, I saw this on numerous occasions during my three years where Fantastic staff were lost at all levels from sales reps to management as they saw soooo many unfair practices and were overlooked for promotion in favor of someone else clearly less capable. 


Its all about self promotion so if you are doing what you were employed to do you should be telling everyone that will listen that you are doing it and e-mailing the management team. 

But remember anything can be ignored if your face does not fit. 

I was told by one manager that sometimes people can be too good at their current  job to be promoted.. 
And that was the best advice I had received in my time with the company.

Be careful choose a manager that is liked and make them look good no matter what and don't be afraid to suck up and back slap.