Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-04-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Sales Engineer
Pros: 1.) You've got a 8-5 work week, don't take work home (unless your manager needs you to do something. 

2.) Pay is decent

3.) You get free soda/water/coffee in the break room.
Cons: 1.) Have been working within several Fortune 100 companies before coming to Oracle. But have not seen the amount of Micromanaging that I've experienced from my manager. Me and my team members receive Pidgin instant messages 3 times within the day (morning/afternoon/evening) "___, are you there?". 
If we are within a meeting and can't respond we receive a call and voicemail. When calling them back on the urgency there isen't any, they just wanted to see how we are doing....?!?

Another issue is our manager not understanding the needs of the team in supporting us better to help us succeed and make our sales team succeed. This is transparent from our teams one on one conversations with them, discussing what we need from them to be successful. When stating it to them we get the political response of, "I like that idea, but....". Although the items we present make logical sense, it does not align with our managers thought process so it gets swiped underneath the rug. When asking our manager on why there is no justification and a simple response of, "I don't need you to think about that". 

I've spoke to all my team members and it seems this has been going on for more than 2 years. Alot of the team members are afraid to speak up to upper management since they think our manager and them are buddies, and to speak up with HR you will need solid issues (although many of the things that our manager does makes us question our job everyday). 

Believe there needs to be a separate person not tied to our manager or any other managers to discuss individually one on one. This will not only provide a clear sense of communication without bias and worry of reprimand, but help provide team members better support from our manager to help grow the Oracle business. 

2.) Although there's online training, would like to see more on-site training workshops given. My manager limits me from participating within any/all trainings other than online ones. This hinders the ability to learn within the growing phases of joining oracle and continuing of a persons knowledge base. 

3.) 401k matching sucks. You need to invest 6% then Oracle only gives 3%. 

4.) Fake atmosphere and people. Guess it's sales, but this place gives it a whole new meaning