Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-09-08
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A Great Place to Work
Pros: As a company is really only as great as its people and Oracle has some of the best people to work with in the industry, I give it a high rating. I worked at Oracle for 4 years and made the mistake of leaving. They hired me back and I had a 2 year run then was let go. I took a territory that I shouldn't have taken so its mostly on me. 

I would happily go back to work for Oracle again. I'd hoped to retire there but a sales person needs to hit numbers and it was impossible given my patch. They'd not been successful there in 15 years and I new that going in. What prompted me to write this is  someone I worked with there reached out to me on a business focused social media platform to connect. They've been with Oracle for 20 years. I felt envy but very happy for them. There are many people with a very long tenure there.
Cons: I don't know of any relevant cons to share about Oracle as a company to work for. Yes, of course there are some people that perhaps shouldn't be in management and yes managers can play favorites but people are people. My best advice would be to share what my first manager told me which is to be good at reinventing yourself and move into other organizations within the company. Looking back, I should have started to make a move to a different group long before I was let go but I loved my manager and my team and let that put a rose color tint on my glasses. They did let a VP from my group go in June who was great to work for. That person missed their number for Fiscal Year 17 but helped build a line of business from a near disaster to a success and hit the team numbers for 10 previous years. I found that to be a little bit of a shocker.