Oracle

Could work from home daily.

I had some really great co-workers.

Manager was terrible. He had no idea what he was doing. Everyone else on the team was new. One of the employees on the team kind of took charge, and we let him, because at least we had a direction. Manager had no idea of what was important and what was not. He gave us little direction, constantly shifting priorities, scope creep, and goalposts. Everything was an emergency. Working in constant fear. Working 12-hour days and weekends.

Manager was more than willing to blame his shortcomings on his employees instead of taking ownership of the fact that he did not know what he was doing. It was clear he wanted to be a developer, but probably got managed out of it because he was not very good. He also had no respect for customers. Just dump the first version of something out there. Any other input was considered to be that the customer in question was taking advantage of our team.

Most communication is done via Slack. Some groups are helpful, and many will blow you off.

You need better guidance for managers, or you need to get rid of the poor ones. You talk about the Oracle principles, but I do not see management living up to them.