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How people got jobs at Oracle
What 84 people did before they joined Oracle: where they worked, what they studied, which role they came in through, and how long it took.
84
people in our data got there
37%
had a graduate degree first (of those listing one)
7
typical years since first job
- The most common step right before: from other companies (65%).
- The most common way in was Sales & business development (25% joined in that kind of role).
- Of those who list their education, 37% had a graduate degree before arriving and 3% a PhD.
- The typical person arrived about 7 years after their first job.
- The most common earlier employer: Sun Microsystems (6% had worked there).
How Oracle compares
- 3% had a PhD, below the 18% across other Big Tech companies, the 2nd-lowest of the 12 in our data.
- 37% had a graduate degree, well below the 63% across other Big Tech companies, the lowest of the 12 in our data.
Among people who list their education; places with at least 10 such people.
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| People listing education | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 50 | 78% |
| 16 | 75% | |
| Meta | 103 | 71% |
| 105 | 69% | |
| NVIDIA | 36 | 67% |
| Amazon | 54 | 63% |
| Adobe | 43 | 58% |
| Microsoft | 97 | 58% |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 44 | 50% |
| Palantir Technologies | 36 | 50% |
| Salesforce | 28 | 43% |
| Oracle (this page) | 30 | 37% |
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| Median years | ||
|---|---|---|
| Adobe | 12 yrs | |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 11 yrs | |
| Salesforce | 11 yrs | |
| NVIDIA | 10 yrs | |
| Apple | 10 yrs | |
| Meta | 8 yrs | |
| Palantir Technologies | 8 yrs | |
| 7 yrs | ||
| Microsoft | 7 yrs | |
| Oracle (this page) | 7 yrs | |
| Amazon | 6 yrs | |
| 6 yrs |
Which role they joined in
Kinds of role with fewer than 5 people are combined into "All other roles".
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Sales & business development | 21 | 25% |
| Software engineering | 17 | 20% |
| All other roles | 21 | 25% |
| Business & operations | 8 | 10% |
| IT & infrastructure | 6 | 7% |
| Member of technical staff | 6 | 7% |
| Strategy consulting | 5 | 6% |
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Development Representative | 5 | 6% |
What they did right before
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| From other companies | 55 | 65% |
| This was their first listed step | 9 | 11% |
| From banks & Fortune 500 | 8 | 10% |
| From Big Tech | 7 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
Where they worked before
A person can count under more than one employer.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Microsystems | 5 | 6% |
| Microsoft | 5 | 6% |
| IBM | 5 | 6% |
Education
Among the 30 of 84 people who list their education.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's | 19 | 63% |
| Master's | 6 | 20% |
| MBA | 4 | 13% |
| PhD | 1 | 3% |
How much experience they had
Among the 72 of 84 people with an earlier job listed.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 | 1% |
| 1-3 years | 10 | 14% |
| 3-5 years | 12 | 17% |
| 5-8 years | 16 | 22% |
| 8-12 years | 13 | 18% |
| 12+ years | 20 | 28% |
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How these numbers are made. From 3k+ public career histories collected for careerladder.fyi (dated jobs, degrees and publications). The collection was built around particular employers, so people who reached well-known tech, AI and finance employers are over-represented: read shares as "among people in this dataset", not as hiring odds. Names are shown only when at least 5 people are behind them; smaller groups are combined into "Other". No individual profile is shown. Updated November 2026.