Oracle

• Occasionally interesting work.
• Decent healthcare benefits.
• Some flexibility of work schedule within development orgs. (if you work for the right manager)

• Zero focus on management training/skills within the development organizations.
• Consistent lack of financial incentive, even for those in the top 10% come review time.
• An expectation that employees will work as many hours per day as needed to achieve unrealistic project goals, which is part of the culture.
• A workaholic mentality is encouraged.
• Many employees are deeply unhappy as a result of quarter-on-quarter penny pinching and lack of raises.

Stop promoting talented engineers (who are often type-A workaholics) into management positions.

These managers don't know how to inspire and motivate employees.

Reward skilled labor consistently, not once every few years or only when they threaten to leave.

Provide hardware to development resources!

Five-year-old computer equipment and an underpowered VM thousands of miles away aren't efficient and don't inspire those doing code work.

Stop seeing the development organizations in the US as a sunken cost, or you may soon find only offshore workers willing to do your bidding (and they typically only last about 2-3 years and move on anyway).