Pros: Branding, a huge portfolio, always something new to learn, and working with large customers.

Cons: Lack of a meritocracy culture

Pros: Name recognition, 40% market share of the database market. High pay, good benefits. There are still some very intelligent folks working there, but see below about the departure of the real talent.

Cons: I had fourteen managers within twenty months. Some of those managers I never even met face to face. Most managers only manage upwards; don’t expect any useful advice from your manager. In eight years, I may have had one or two managers who had a clue how to manage. Both of them were chased away. Negative reinforcement is not a good management technique and drives away intelligent employees. The sales reps I worked with were mostly clueless, with a few exceptions. Sales managers simply barked at those reps, causing the reps who needed coaching to flail and then fail. I cannot tell you how many sales forecast calls I was on where the managers just berated their sales reps. No help, just a beatdown. Most sales reps have no idea what their products do, nor do they understand how to sell them. I spent eight years at Oracle and never got a pay raise despite service above and beyond the call of duty. A friend who was a manager said that is normal. You are expected to move jobs annually to make more money. You must keep track of what you do in fifteen-minute intervals in multiple tools. The administrative overhead is really bad. Training is a joke; you only get the marketing slide decks, never get a chance to really use the technology you sell. Your customers will hate you because the rep before you may have audited them and raped them so they can get a big paycheck on the way out the door. Lots of arrogant colleagues who care nothing about their customers or coworkers make this a very challenging place to work. It's a very cutthroat, unhealthy workplace. The work-life balance at Oracle is a joke. Burnout is rampant. I had two colleagues leave, and rather than hire replacements, I was asked to take up the slack for a year and a half. All major account executives (CADs) are divorced, in the process of getting a divorce, or are terminally single due to their personalities. I know I have just written a lot of negative things about Oracle, but I tried very hard to make it work. After eight years’ worth of honest effort on my part, it was a frustrating experience. My customers loved me and were shocked when I left, but they all watched what I described happen, and all of them understand how hard I tried to make it work. They are happy to work with me again for another vendor.

Pros: Generally, most people are good to work with.

Cons: Pay raises are rare. Presales are hourly. You must book overtime to make up for reductions to bonuses. They will find novel ways to cut your commission/bonus. The product might be OK to demo, but it is poor to implement, resulting in problematic customer references.