Oracle Reviews

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

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

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

* Great Company (Nice Office)
* Flexible Working Hours
* Nice co-workers
* Beautiful office
* Some nice goodies i.e. free drinks etc.

Cons

* Lack of man power
* Told not to work to much (due to legal reasons), but requested to do so
* Although yearly performance review is great no possibility to get promoted / salary raise
* No clear career path / or none at all

Advice to Senior Management

I know that controlling is important but the management should compare man-power (controlling/ops vs customer facing employees)

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

Pros

get to work on good Integration Projects

Cons

too large pond for a fish

Advice to Senior Management

make 1 best instead of (n) ok

Pros

Aggressive market environment, fast-paced, decent money, flexibility, decent work/life balance

Cons

Movement/advancement can be tough if you work for the wrong manager, some processes are broken, instances where employees are not treated as key asset

Advice to Senior Management

Redisover the entrepreneurial spirit that the company was founded on and recognize the efforts of your entire workforce, mot a select few.

Pros

Oracle is world number one leader in many technologies. It is highly competitive and well run company with strong financial standing.

Cons

Company culture is top down. Sometimes, I feel my opinion is not important.