Great on the Resume but you 'pay for it' - Sales Consultant Oracle Employee Review

3.0
Mar 23, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

If you have the desire you can learn a ton about different technologies, industries, and more (they own so much now its just a matter of finding the right people/resources in the Company). They expect you to be the best and value the input of the Sales Consultants. The Benefits are awesome and you are basically left to work 'on your own' and out of your house.

Cons

You can do a great job for the reps and deals you are responsible for but ultimately they are not the people who decide if you get to keep your job and they have little/no input. Decisions are made by managers who often live out of the area and have no real grasp of who is doing the work or skilled at their job. They are going off 'numbers in the system'.. (i.e. those who are leveraged by sales the least and have the most time to simply enter hours in the system look the best on paper and they take that as the gospel without actually checking with the Sales Team). There is way too much time spent on 'internal selling' and politics. There are so many Reps mapped to every account that half of the sales cycle is internal meetings trying to protect your division of the companies portion of a much larger contract (how much of a 10M deal gets allocated to database, BI, ERP, BEA, etc) instead of selling the value to the customer.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Oct 21, 2014
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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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