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Acquired by Oracle in the Sun Microsystems acquisition

Enterprise Hardware Specialist
Former Employee
Worked at Oracle for less than 1 year
March 11, 2010
4.0
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Pros

Oracle is a terrific brand to work for in the IT industry. If Oracle is in an account, it's never going anywhere, so there is tremendous upside to continue to sell into the account. As part of an acquisition, I was given better benefits and resources to sell. I was also able to tap into their tremendous sales force that has great reach into multiple contacts within accounts.

Cons

Their existing software sales force is very hard to work with, as they are controlling and look at those who were acquired by Oracle as direct reports, when that could not be any further from the truth. You receive a sizable car allowance a month but cannot expense mileage unless you are traveling an exuberant amount of miles a week. My major issue was the lack of ability to move within the company for 6 months after the acquisition, and thus no pay increase.

Advice to Management

None. Their business model is fantastic, and they will continue to grow at an exponential rate.

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