No raises. No long-term responsibility title and raise structure for developers, If Nice had tech company style skill, title, and pay paths for the average employee I think it would contribute to longer tenure and a happier employee culture.
It seems if the "pay for performance" plan were truly a positive attribute it would be easier to find details about it in positive reviews rather than negative ones.
I think it would help Nice more to reply to negative review about no raises with something like, "This is true, we don't offer raises very often. We acknowledge most employees haven't gotten a raise in 5 years, But did you know we haven't done any layoffs either? Did you see x company lay off 25k employees last week? And the news about plans for another layoff in January? This doesn't happen to you at Nice. We have x thousand employees and haven't done layoffs in x # of years. Once you are hired, you won't be cast aside and laid off with no notice. In many cases, even if your current project ends, you will be assigned a new project is in your same domain. You are kept and valued as an employee once hired. While you don't often get raises very often, you get long-term job stability."
I think it's better to not skirt the truth but acknowledge it and focus on the positive trade-off instead. I know with my girlfriend, if I am not straightforward about something I said or did and I give a diplomatic default it usually ends up worse for me.
In an age of employees being valued as if they are disposable lines of code and layoffs driver by shareholder profits and C-level bonuses constantly disguised as necessary cost-savings, straightforwardness and comments about job security would go a long way.
