A case study for what bad organizations look like - Sales Oracle Employee Review

1.0
Jun 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

-As it is in sales, you can get lucky and make a lot of money without deserving to or putting in the effort -Good work/life balance because the work is not that engaging or demanding

Cons

-Terrible culture that stems from uninspiring, ultra-competitive and selfish upper management. You may have already heard about Oracle rigging its accounting for cloud numbers--it's true most of the cloud revenue is done using the 'nuclear tactic' which ends up actually hurting the company because customers will never use our cloud products again after that terrible experience. -No accountability on several layers. Lead generation team will cheat all its numbers but no one has the incentive to be honest. Huge disparity in incentive and goals between sales team and business development. - Unreliable. Never pays what it says it will pay, forces you to take vacation to deduct the vacation days on their books, isn't transparent, rarely ever addresses issues brought up from the bottom -Despite having TWO highest paid CEO's in the country ($50m+ each) overall revenue was down, and the only figures that were up (cloud) were pretty much engineerd and fabricated to show like there was growth but in reality the product sucks and is too expensive so most of the market goes with microsoft, AWS, or open source anyways -Cut the bonus payout during the most important payout period by 50%, including organizations that outperformed its commitment, then took no action to address the issue professionally or provide an explanation or keep the morale high.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Every group/division can be different in how they treat their employees, but I'd say overall there is very good atmosphere of trust and fairness. There is a strong focus on education, and they reimburse for outside classes taken (Up to 5k/year I think). Benefits are good, and I'd say quite competitive in the market. Good 401K matching (they'll contribute a max of 3% of your 6% or greater). Free drinks in the breakroom. Flexibility to work from home at times. (If you live 50+ miles away from an office you can work full-time from home...policy).

Cons

They don't try to make the workplace anything special (maybe a pool table and arcade game are cliche or gimmicky?). In the 10 years I've worked there, they've given 2 measly %1 cost of living raises (this is the same with most everyone I've spoken to, some don't get any raises). You will not get a substantial raise ever, unless you leave then get rehired on (they will not match offers, better to leave). New employees that you train will make 10 - 20K more than you several years after you hire on (not just me, they do this to all tenured employees). They will give these untrained, less experienced people higher titles (again this is done to everyone not just me). You learn pretty quickly that you're dispensable. The company has billions in cash and they don't re-invest in their employees, just in acquiring new companies and hiring new people that know nothing that you get to train.

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