Oracle

For the Bangalore office:

If you belong to certain Indian states and show excessive deference to your bosses, promotions are easy. Otherwise, forget it.

Work is good and there's a lot to learn. Work timings are flexible.

Highly unfair environment. Worked there for 6 years. Had only one US-based manager who was good.

If you have Indian managers, be prepared for all the state politics.

• Salary increase less than 5% per year.
• Promotions depend on how well we can bootlick our Indian managers and not on work.

But this varies from vertical to vertical. If you are working in ERP suites, then be prepared for this. The exception is Fusion, which has a lot of US-based and non-Indian managers.

Don't make it a state-based political system.