Oracle reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(60,051 total reviews)

Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

41% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Oracle has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 60,051 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oracle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jun 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Extremely valuable training program -Great experience at a Corporate Company -Good benefits -Good work/life balance -Made good friends as most colleagues are college graduates -Nice to have name on Resume

Cons

-High Turnover rate -90% of reps are negative and do not like working environment -Within my first 1.5 years I had been in 3 different territories, had 3 different managers, 3 different teams, and 3 different directors. -They will block internal transfers, extremely hard to grow internally. They encourage reps to look at other opportunities within Oracle after a year if sales is not true passion. I interviewed for a new position within Oracle, informed my boss of my interest of this transfer and got their verbal approval. After multiple rounds of interviews I got an offer. But then it was blocked by my Sales Org because they were too unorganized to sign my approval. I was given a shrug and told there were many other jobs at Oracle I could apply to, and got short-listed as an employee who was going to leave or quit soon. Honestly I know more reps who have had better luck leaving Oracle and then coming back instead of transferring internally. -They do not care about employees in their indoor Sales Dept. Cut-throat, they layoff or demote loyal and hard working employees. No method to the madness. We are easily replaceable -No trust in our leaders Joanne Olsen or Todd Cione -Bad Commission Plan -Long sales cycles, can take a year to close deal -Slow moving ship -Lead Generation/BDC teams are a joke. They stuff the pipeline with fake/bad opportunities, in order to hit their big bonus. Only to cut opportunities down to reality at the end of the quarter. Sales teams receive no real support. -No praises, no raises -Not true sales role, In good territories reps are merely paper pushers for field reps. Accounts are not distributed fairly, year after year bad territories never clear 15% of their quota. Some reps are glorified, even though they never made 1 cold call/email, they just got lucky in an Oracle hot territory and/or had a good field rep. -Recruiter told me I would make 80K after first couple months, I make 45K. Misrepresentation. -They micromanage -Annual re-orgs

3.0
Apr 18, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- It's Oracle - makes your CV look good - If you are happy to spend 3 years in a job and move to a different employer, this is the place for you.

Cons

- No growth opportunities for non-Sales staff in the UK - No work/life balance unless you have children

1.0
Feb 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary is really good for one of the poorest regions in Spain Weather and Spanish way of life Good for the CV if you are a new starter in sales/business New project...so it can evolve in a good way. Maybe.

Cons

- Lots of cold calling. - No business development unit to give you leads. - Poorly organized project - Unreachable targets - Selling depends on luck about the accounts you have and the country you work for, nothing esle. - You compete against other Oracle's business units - Self Service company: don't expect any help for anything. You lose a lot of time doing everything by yourself - Cost effective position for the company: you do telemarketing, ISR and sometimes presales without any salary compensation. - Commissions don't get paid and you have to fight with heavy admin processes to get it - Only one Hardware product to sell....and the most difficult one. - You will have to do a lot of lobbying and political moves with other people within the company if you want to be able to work normally. - Lots of traffic jams in order to get to the office depending on where you live. Sometimes 1 hour drive time to do 10km. Unacceptable for a small city like Malaga.

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