Oracle Reviews

Pros

Good Work Opportunities, Latest Technology and Right Recognition with Respect.

Cons

Don't get continuous feedback. If a employee is doing good he is overloaded.

Advice to Senior Management

Employee needs to know what others are working on within team.

Pros

Work from home is encouraged; benefits are fair, although less so each year. Lack of real planning and management make work generally easy to accomplish. Doing 'more with less' - has after years become: 'Doing less and less and less ... with less."

Cons

No raises or bonuses in 6-7 years. No training budget anymore; travel no longer allowed. Self-service approach for all employee tasks uses up huge chunks of our time each day/week. IT help desk no longer exists. HR department no longer exists - at least in the sense of supporting workers. Oracle's bad customer-facing attitude has now been applied to their own employees so long that- the employees will no longer support and defend their own company in public when an opportunity arises to do so.

Advice to Senior Management

As is - Oracle has no employees, only 'insurance slaves'. And, like slave-based systems anywhere - it runs like one. Managers need to make decisions too- no one will make decisions, when there is no risk/reward system in place to encourage forward thought and decisions.

Pros

Decent salary/bonus compared to other consulting practices, great health care benefits, great software products

Cons

Management not engaged with staff, no interaction. No direct feedback on job performance, only paperwork. Raises are scarce. Way too much overhead tasks for a PM; monthly reports that go nowhere, quality reviews on your project that are meant to find something to report on to Sr. management.

Advice to Senior Management

More interaction with staff - quarterly meetings, collaboration calls with peers

Pros

One of the biggest corporation in technology, leaders in several ways and products of software. Add the Sun microsystems hardware, OS and Java experience.

Cons

Slow mobility between different charges and roles, it needs more dynamics to improve motivation inside the corporation and the career way.

Advice to Senior Management

Needs more specific and technical knowledge and dedication to support the multiple and complex tasks that the engineers have assigned.

Pros

Oracle has a great strategy. One Red Stack makes sense.
Plentiful resource pool to pull from.
Foot soldiers are still leading the way.

Cons

Despite Oracle's strong strategic story, the fractional sales model means that there is no one communicating this message to customers.
Inflexible support model prevents new sales. No surprise that 50% of global revenues come from support renewals.
Amount of admin, spreadsheets and report creation is a huge time consumer.
Middle management offers no support and is mostly made up of recently promoted telesales managers.
Old boys network is strong and thriving.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in your existing talent. You claim they are Oracle's greatest asset but then treat them with indifference. No one is bigger than the team, but there needs to be a limit.

Pros

Stable company
Good Executive Mgmt. at top
Good Corporate decisions

Cons

Non employee centric company. They do not care about employee staying with company for long. They know they will find replacement fast.

Advice to Senior Management

need to be more employee centric

Pros

we can cooperate with employees around the world.

Cons

It has been 4 years the salary is frozen...

Advice to Senior Management

nothing

Pros

Great company with innovation, technology and recognition.
Most employees are 10+ years there, that tells how this company treats its employees.
Hopefully fusion applications takes leadership in the market..

Cons

Product names are changed constantly.. so its very hard to keep track of the products
Company is expanding globallay more than the US expansion

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up with same good work on acquisitions.. and bring all the market leaders into oracle family.
Concentrate on cloud computing..

Pros

Great benefits, training, and name recognition.You can learn a lot very quickly and will be paid about as high as any inside sales rep you know. Lots of different products to sell, plenty of division and products to move into. Having Oracle on the resume will serve you well when you inevitably leave because you sick of it, or because they'll pay you less for a promotion than if you left to return to Oracle again. Happens all the time!

Cons

Territories are incredibly unfair. Tough sit sit next to a moron and out work them, only to watch them collect easy and enormous commissions. SR MGMT has no idea what's going on, and changes their direction daily. Very immature sales org in some product lines. Oracle has terrible internal systems, information sharing, and communication is embarrassing. They could be so much better if they hired better people, better management, and modernized their approach to sales in the 21st century.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize talent, achievement, skills, and success based on how a deal was actually won. Not by a number on a spreadsheet in a cake territory. hire better managers. support sales with better marketing...any marketing! Come down from your ivory towers and see how tough reps jobs are.

Pros

Positive work culture, Lot of learning opportunities

Cons

Rapidly changing organization, one must adapt quickly

Advice to Senior Management

Take care of empoyees to retain the best