Oracle

1. Work-life balance. Not much work pressure and flexible timings.

2. Work from home option. This depends on the team you work in. I have seen teams where team members worked from home for weeks at a time without any problems.

3. Job security. Though, once in a while, small layoffs happen, but it's all hush-hush, and you won't hear anything about it unless it's someone you know who got laid off.

1. No salary hikes or yearly bonus at all. I personally had the best possible performance ratings in my performance reviews, yet didn't receive a single cent of bonus or a single cent increase in my salary in the 3+ years I spent working there. I knew quite a few people who left the organization after 4-5 years of working there because of no salary hikes/bonus or minimal salary hikes of 1-3% in all the years they worked there.

2. No career growth. Just like a stagnant salary, your career growth also stagnates. If you don't run after your managers and request them to get you promoted, you will most likely stay in the same designation until they finally give it to you on a "seniority basis" years down the line. Performance apparently isn't a factor in promotions in Oracle India. Good at buttering up your managers and blowing your own trumpet is one of the two factors which may help in getting you promoted; the other being, which part of the country you are from.

3. Regionalism is quite evident. I have heard senior members in teams tell people they referred for jobs in Oracle that they needn't worry about getting hired because so-and-so director was from the same state/part of the country as the guy doing the referral, and hence wouldn't reject anyone he referred. Regionalism also shows up when it comes to hikes, bonuses, and promotions.

4. No compensatory days off or extra money if you work weekends or holidays.

5. Middle management in some departments seems absolutely clueless on how to go about some work-related activities, and this often led to haphazard planning of work activities.

6. HR doesn't seem to exist in the company. You will hear and talk to HR only on the day you join and the day you quit and leave.

Stop treating Oracle India employees as cheap labor and do give some salary hike and bonus each year. There are better options out there now for your India employees to go and work for.

So, if you are thinking that people will stay loyal to you just because of the "Oracle" brand name, you are wrong. In fact, most of your talented workforce in India seem to have quit and left, and that's why a couple of your products, which have a lot of work done in India, are suffering and not up to market standards anymore.

Get rid of the incompetent people in Oracle, and just know there are plenty of such people in your ranks—some in the India office and some in your US office.