Oracle

Many other teams have a great manager.

Watch out, guys. Other team members will leave soon.

Where do I start?

• The vacation policy was changed to unlimited vacation (and they will not compensate for the accrued vacation).

• There's a "boot-licking" policy to get recognized and promoted. There are a few Indian managers and a director (the "three musketeers") who are technically very weak. To be honest, there are more than five Indian managers and zero non-Indian managers, with about two to three QEs.

• The interview process is very lame due to non-technical managers and a non-technical director.

• Promotion/appraisal happens within the three friends and their friends, so stay away from this team.

• Work/life balance sucks big time in these groups, and if you raise a concern, you either tend to leave the job yourself or you are laid off (I have seen it happening).

• No appraisal happened within the HQ team in the last two years (amongst QA Engineers), but meanwhile, the Indian team got appraisals (so there is a huge discrepancy happening).

The Director himself said many times that Oracle doesn't pay much.

No advice, because the product is going to fail due to egoistic management. I haven't seen a single manager or director who got fired over the last few years. The product is not making revenue, so there is a huge void.