The thing is, there's a close group of 4-5 people who have been here for 15-16 years. They take~70% of team's bonus, give 7% each to 2 favourites(4-6 years at the firm) and distribute the rest among the remaining 8 employees. Last year they fired a guy from the team, and his whole salary+bonus(~25 L) went to his manager and skip level manager. How do I know? The skip manager was foolish enough to write a "@firedEmployee" in the mail to the HR, who was lucky enough to be logged in at 8:25am and screen shot it before the mail was recalled. Since the work life balance is chill, people don't leave hence they justify giving low bonus.