Met the recruiter at a career fair and was invited to a mixer after the career fair. Tbh, I went for the free pizza and I know there should be effort on our part to mingle with the employees and recruiters, but a lot of them stayed in closed off groups and it already gave me a bad impression. I've been to more interactive working events where recruiters and employees circle around and stuff like that. This wasn' the case. The recruiter I talked to was very lax and not professional. She talked down other jobs I was interested in like "I would never do that" "That role is VERY hard." I get she was trying to promote the BDC role, but it just sounded very negative and unprofessional.
Cons: I'm not sure why my whole process took 4 rounds and 6 phone calls. They want to be really sure you want to do Sales. They're looking for people that want to stay at Oracle (because no one ever does). That same recruiter told me, "Typically people use the Class of BDC role to get good training and then quit to go to another tech company" I'm not really sure why she told me this? Also, they only recruit from certain schools. If you're not from one of these schools, it might be harder trying to contact a recruiter since certain recruiters specialize in a schools/area.
When I was rejected after the last round, I got no explanation or feedback as to why I was rejected. I thought my last interview wasn't horrible and had been asked the same questions and gave the same answers. I know the recruiter doesn't owe me an explanation, but after studying the role and the company for 6 weeks I would at least appreciate some feedback on my last interview. I did ask for it nicely and got no reply. All I have now is useless information about Oracle products.
Pros: Even though I went through six grueling phone calls - they really helped. That same recruiter, after almost every interview round, would go through feedback with me. The interviewers, albeit the last interviewer that was from across the country, our current managers and if hired will most likely be your boss. Rather than scaring you to see if your fit, they're really trying to get to know you to see if you'll fit in their team.
I gained a lot of interview practice and could answer any question about wanting to be in sales. It has definitely helped me with other interviews with other companies. Also, a lot of the questions they ask are here on Glassdoor, but they're pretty basic sales interview questions. I never got the "Sell me this pen" question lol (which you could find the answer to in some LinkedIn article).
They're Class of program is also supposed to be a really good program (a friend of a friend of mine used it and was contacted by Google to join their Sales team). Although, I cannot talk about it from experience since I wasn't hired.