Good place to start your career, not end it - Business Development Consultant Oracle Employee Review

4.0
11 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing place to start your career. Beautiful building and an opportunity to live in LA and work near the beach. Your peers are a ton of people your age so the culture is great. You learn a ton of great tech industry and business knowledge and skills but at the end of the day, it's a sales gig. Day after day of cold calls, emails, linkedin messages. Quarter after quarter of demanding quotas, stressful micromanagement tendencies and repetitive trainings. Overall, it's a great place to get experience in the industry, especially if you want to go into sales. For the 80% of BDCs who don't want to be in sales and never wanted to be in the first place, it's a good name-recognizable place holder on your resume for your next job.

Cons

Work satisfaction often depends heavily on who your manager is (micromanagey, etc) Lots of pointless activities such as repetitive trainings. Constant changes. Sales jobs.

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Cons

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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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