Treated Well but Missteps in Upper Management and Missed Opportunities. - Technical Software Sales Specialist Oracle Employee Review

4.0
1 Feb 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Good Salary, Benefits, and Excellent Vacation and Holiday Schedule. (Bank holidays and Christmas through New Year's as part of Holiday). Telecommuting encouraged and reimbursements for all work related expenses from cell phone to ISP to land line. Telecommuting worked well for both employees and SUN. Ability to work with new technologies. Breadth of hardware and software solutions and pioneering projects should make most technology enthusiasts very happy. The Good Guys for open source.

Cons

Too many re-orgs and changes in strategy and direction. Too much reliance on partners for delivering key services and solutions that should have been handled in-house via Professional Services. Too many layoff rounds that affected morale. Software for a while was always less important than hardware and treated as such. Too many hardware folks trying to run software with mixed results. Open Source model was hard to make money off of. Some poor execution and missteps.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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