Oracle

Hard work is well rewarded, especially via stock for the development org. The benefits are excellent and comprehensive.

There’s plenty of opportunity to learn and apply your skills. With a great immediate manager and enough buffer from the ones that manage by f-bombs, it’s a great environment.

Management can slow things down and tend to get in the way.

Many upper-level managers/VPs clearly haven’t taken the required courses on harassment and microaggressions (if they have, they’ve learned little).

While stock awards are generous to top performers, bonus and raise rounds in recent years pale in comparison to the 90s-early 2000s.

The company is overloaded with way too many “customer-care” type people that contribute little but hound those actually doing work for continual status updates.

These roles are duplicated across various divisions, which makes it even worse.

Dealing with these people is by far the most miserable part of the job for me.

I’m pretty sure bonuses and raises would still be plentiful if these people weren’t consuming so much payroll.

Abide by the anti-harassment (verbal) and other compliance training the rest of us do. Get rid of the bloated CSM and customer care folks.