Oracle Reviews in Redwood City, CA

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible work schedule and lots of opportunities ot learn new technologies

Cons – Salary not competitive with market.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Incredible training for starting a sales career, truly invest in you, and top notch sales people. You can take advantage of the training and learn as much as possible. Excellent Health Benefits! Career opportunity to grow. Management will stand up for you as long as you are doing your job.

Cons – Commission can be delayed.
High-Turn Over.
Politics between Inside and Outside sales.

Advice to Senior Management – Excellent Managers will support you in your growth. Several managers truly invest in you. Can openly share where you want to go in with your career.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – * Work Life Balance is awesome, except for cases when you are working for a manager who doesn't understand what are the benefits of working for Oracle.
* A beautiful camps that is a landmark of Silicon Valley. It is very well maintained.
* Great Gymnasium.
* An aggressive CEO with a vision, a well defined market strategy, zeal to kill competition, and an innate capability of eeking out profit margins for the share holders.

Cons – * In many divisions of the business, employees are treated as resources, and not human beings.
* No culture to breed innovation from within Oracle. Innovation is happening at Oracle because of acquisition.
* Employees/Engineers have to create their own challenges, unless your division is under the focus of the office of the CEO.
* Teams stay together as a group for many many years. Hence no exposure to other team members with different skills.
* Managers typically lack skills to motivate and excite the teams and people. They work for themselves and promote themselves.

Advice to Senior Management – Not sure what to say... Culture starts from the top. Hopefully you can change it at your level.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good place to work as a first job. If you start in a group which is working on a new product you will learn a lot.
Nice facilities in the campus.
Relaxed work culture.
Secure job.

Cons – Not great salary and increment is very less.
Almost no bonus, depends on the product you are working on.
Career growth is slow.

Advice to Senior Management – Fresh graduates are getting more salary than people working for 3 years. Doesn't make sense.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent benefits! I mean cream of the crop!
Great environment for self-motivated people

Cons – If you are not self motivated or able to manage your own schedule and projects, this is not a place for you.

Advice to Senior Management – More communication

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great Technology and Sharp Minds to work with

Cons – Compensation for salary and bonus is below average

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Oracle as an intern for less than a year

Pros – This was the most awesome internship I have had.

Cons – I wanted to have a more diverse set of projects.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people; telecommuting friendly, very driven company; lots of opportunities to learn and push yourself; decent benefits

Cons – hiring and retention policies are out of sync. the longer you stay with the company the less likely your compensation will compare with the new hire

Advice to Senior Management – pay for performance and loyalty;

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Sales support is not about face time in the office, but rather how well you're able to support your reps. Flexibility as long as you get the job done.

Cons – Fairly political, lots of inane administrivia that highly qualified managers and even directors seem to over-focus on, absolutely no ability to get a base pay raise in sales, easy to stagnate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Flexibility is great in this company

Cons – Compensation is a cause of concern

Advice to Senior Management – Compensation will soon be the main reason why talent will leave

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend