Benefits are Amazing, but Office Politics is King - Functional Consultant Oracle Employee Review

3.0
Feb 28, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Oracle NetSuite has phenomenal employee benefits and top-tier training opportunities and resources for product knowledge for employees. The staff appears to be more laid-back than traditional corporate companies: most people introduce themselves casually and refer to everyone by their first names. There is a strong community- and team-based structure and people are quick to respond to Slack messages and are often very friendly.

Cons

During my time training, a consultant who had been in the role for roughly six months explained that, despite the friendly corporate culture, there was a much higher turnover rate for NetSuite consultants than I expected. Once I graduated training, I saw it happen in real-time: within the first year of working there, four to five team members on projects that I was staffed on left NetSuite to work for NetSuite Partner or Alliance companies in the same role. There were even more that did the same that I had connected with on LinkedIn or that I heard about from other coworkers. I wish that, during interviews/training/onboarding, there was more emphasis put on the necessity to network with Project Managers, Delivery Leads, etc, and office politics in general in order to get put on projects to maintain utilization performance levels and the importance of utilization. Without connections to PMs, you are very unlikely to get put on projects and get the experience that PMs and DLs are looking for in staffing larger projects for career growth; so, you have to job-hunt within the job to maintain performance levels and ensure you're in a position to get promoted. I also wish there was more transparency regarding the process of completing a horizontal shift into a role in another department instead of the emphasis that they put on vertical shifts in the same role or department. They also appear to be making moves to bring their employees back to the office, specifically in Sales roles. Usually, when co-workers stated that they were in the office while on Zoom calls, the background would be quite noisy, which seems a bit counter-productive for a job that would be meeting with most customers via Zoom anyway.

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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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