Oracle

Great work-life balance. You can work from home when not traveling to customers, and most managers will allow you to take time off when needed to take care of personal affairs.

There are rare cases when you need to do overtime or weekend work, and those only happen during customer cutovers.

The benefits are good, but they are pretty standard and worse than other tech giants in the Bay Area.

The only way to get a raise is to come with a competing offer.

There are piles of dead wood in my group and nobody is terminated.

I have been with the company for over 7 years and have seen only one person getting fired, and that was because the person did not outperform for 5 years!

The promotions happen to make you happy with a higher title, but that does not mean more responsibility and neither salary raises.

The executives get the raises, and you do not.

The bonus is a big chunk of your pay, but the bonus pool gets underfunded ALWAYS.

If you move from level 1 to level 2 (for example), your bonus increases from 15% to 20%, but your salary does not increase. Management makes you think this is a 5% bump on your salary.

They use the "dive and save" strategy, and they will only bump your salary if you have an offer in hand.

Please do value your great performers more. Give them real responsibilities and pay them what the market pays on base salary. Bonuses are never to be expected, so please be considerate of that when making offers. Please do get rid of the dead wood instead of giving them a chance to be better performers in five years.