Oracle

In my team, I have great work-life balance. There are plenty of offices all around the country, so you can work remotely from other offices if management approves. The engineering peers are very pleasant to deal with.

There are plenty of teams that have high-stress jobs. You don't tend to find many young professionals here because of the extremely poor bonuses and hikes (sometimes zero irrespective of performance) once you are hired. Most people stay because they have been at Oracle for 10+ years and have gotten comfortable doing what they do. Hikes are not tied to promotion, so I have been promoted thrice, but my pay has kind of remained the same in the past six years. Most new hires would be paid much higher than me now.

Every good young professional I personally knew in the last six years has left for other Bay Area companies. Only mediocre new hires or people who need a lot of flexibility tend to stay on at Oracle. Generously rewarding upper management year after year at the expense of engineers will leave you a company full of mediocre engineers who produce substandard products.

You should not be surprised when organic innovation is terrible and M&A is the only way out. If you hire the best talent from top universities and then forget about them, the effort spent on hiring them is wasted.