Less than a year ago I left a company I was at for 5+ years because a recruiter from Oracle reached out. I saw the name and I thought the big O was going to be it for me. I had high expectations, I was going to retire working at Oracle. I joined the team and could not believe how bad it was from the get-go. First, it was a bait and switch. I was supposed to be working install accounts, but in reality, I had almost none. I was put in a role of chasing tennis ba--s for all new business. This was not an easy task, considering the CRM and data we were using was horrible! For a data company we sure had very, very outdated data. For a tech company the applications were were using was so disjointed. Workspace was bad, but my god was Next Gen Sales even worse! This might have been the reason that most of my other team members were tracking contacts, leads, accounts, etc in Excel documents. We were sending weekly reports via Word documents. I had a team member tell me he prospected using mail merge….MAIL MERGE! I’m not sure if my manager knew these layoffs were inevitable or if they already had one foot out the door, but there was little to no collaboration, no guidance, no team meetings, cancelled one on ones; I could go weeks without talking to my manager. So yeah, my expectations were not even close to being met and I am not retiring at Oracle, but looking for a new job.
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I've done two stints at Oracle; first was due to acquisition and the transition was bad and assimilating to Oracle's culture was awful. This second stint had been much better (until the layoff yesterday). Good people who are friends as much as they are colleagues. They won't learn their fate until later in the week. What a trainwreck this company is.
The org I'm in has been fantastic. Through the pandemic, management really cared and put families and people first. It has a lot of the negatives of a big corp, with a lot of products with some being in growth mode and others being on the downslope. But that is to be expected with an org this size and this old. It also has a lot of the positives of a big corp.
I spent 5 years of my career at Oracle. It was the most toxic company I ever worked for and that culture came all the way down from the top. I am so sorry for those of you getting laid off. But in the end, you deserve better.
Getting layed off is a crime against humanity. Bring in Lee Harrison to pretend you are still working. Its cr-p.
Oracle was a fine place to grow my career, particularity when I was in a growing business area. Once growth began to plateau, things got rough quickly. That said, even once the cuts began, survivors might take leaps in responsibility (perhaps without pay increase) that led to better opportunities elsewhere. My path from startup, to Oracle, to Amazon worked well for me. I do miss my Oracle peers, we had some top notch and fun people. Hang in there, and best of luck!
I had no expectations regarding 0. I figure, keep an open mind and give it an honest chance. My org and management were great. my peers were highly intelligent motivated and ethical people who were a pleasure to work with. The company as a whole? ahhh, not so much. I found it to be a soulless machiavellian ruthless cabal run by a narcissistic cult of personality who literally cared about nothing except their own checkbooks. My time there wasn't all bad, as I said, my org was great. I was one of the lucky ones. I knew too many who weren't so lucky. But above my org? Nothing but a cancerous rot. I wouldn't take the effort to ur----e on any of them if they were set on fire right in front of me.
I joined as an enterprise sales rep expected a big american corp that was competitive, but could pull together to win major deals given the breadth of tech and reach into every enterprise on the planet. Turned out more that the first question people would ask in a meeting with peers from other products (or overlays/specialists) was 'how are you comp'd?' because of the various ways that some people could be comp'd would sc--w others. So i was right - it was competitive, but inwardly. Faceless corp where no one could make a decision, the only firm decision was based on DAS approvals. Hated it