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Current Employee

1.3

May 29, 2024

New business unit within Oracle selling to local government, which Oracle has never done before. The market is ripe with opportunity, but unfortunately Oracle Corp is totally inflexible and does not bend as needed to enter a new market, successfully. Moreover, leadership of this business unit did not do the right amount of market research, went to market too early with a product that still had major gaps, and hired a full sales team too soon. Pitched as a start up within Oracle to recruit top GovTech talent, which ended up not being a startup culture at all. Really good incentive comp plans, but totally unachievable. No account executive hit quota; and a few never closed one deal in a 2 year tenure. The business unit executed a RIF and eliminated high-quality experienced account executives without cause. Oracle hires “yes men”, so if you tend to be a creative self-starter, a challenger, and you often ask “why”, then you should not work here.

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4.4

Sep 26, 2023

good company with good products. sales systems are slightly outdated

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2.6

Apr 3, 2024

Oracle is a good school, especially suitable for new joiners in the tech industry to gain brand on your CV, to get your foot into IT and to adjust yourself in a large self-service corporation. Also, the technical colleagues are knowledgeable and helpful. Great networking opportunity. These are the upsides. Yet, It will be very hard to reach your sales targets in the...Read More

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