I’m a cloud employee, and I see layoffs left and right, not to mention people leaving on their own. Definitely the headcount is shrinking,so I was wondering if there is any information about how much Cloud employees were let go, and what is the... — read more 

who get this package? how to get this package? by 121 talk? tough to HR? I want this package...teach me.

Oracle China R&D is shutting down its office this month with more than 1600 employees

Here is Gartner’s take (Magic Quadrants) on Cloud DBs, Storage, and Infrastructure… We are doing very good on the DB side, Storage/Infra is not that good… Operational Database Management Systems... — read more 

Lets face it. If we weren’t bleeding money on multiple fronts we wouldn’t be in a position that people need to be let go, good, productive people, that made a difference. My guess is that Cloud swallowed a huge amount of money and didn’t produce any... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1/216 remains at 22,086. Keep looking, keep looking!

I'm wondering how many people received this email?

Over the past few months, there have been questions concerning the future of the SPARC/Solaris platform that we’d like to address. First, in terms of Oracle Solaris, its Premier Support will last until at least 2034. In fact, in October 2017, Fujitsu... — read more 

We are all aware that things aren’t looking good. I suppose we all made peace with the fact that layoffs are an everyday part of our employment at Oracle. The more important question to me is how did we get to this state. Where exactly did the... — read more 

It’s official Q4 results plain s---, oracle is nowhere in the cloud business and sales old-fashioned oracle are gone. Layoffs coming for sure but never made a company better off - oracle had had ongoing layoffs since 6/1/2016 and revenues remain... — read more 

Sales guys comparing notes... Q4 looks bleak. Most customers have put Oracle projects in "containment mode." This means no new licensing if at all possible. Support stream is all that's keeping this Q4 from an inky black hole. Some EULA renewals will... — read more 

New layoffs will come, that’s a fact. Don’t think anyone would want to argue that. Chances are they’re coming sooner rather than later. Has anyone heard or does anyone have an opinion on will here be any method will they be led by? Will they be... — read more 

It's bad to have oracle on your resume. I had a recruiter laugh at me because I was at Oracle. It's known as the "country club". Honestly, anything you say you accomplished at Oracle is considered a joke at other places. There is no reason to ever... — read more 

Our traditional approach has been top-down targeting senior executives and budget owners. This approach has limited success in technology-driven categories like IaaS and PaaS where the value is more evident to developers, architects, and product... — read more 

Has Oracle just become a stepping stone for a better job somewhere else? It certainly feels like it lately, considering how many people are starting here and then leaving very soon after. Not that I'm blaming anybody for leaving this place, I'm just... — read more 

I'm a Senior Engineer laid off on Mar 21, 2019. There is a 60 day rule saying I can stay in the US for 60 days and can transfer my H1B to some new employer , and after 60 days say May 21, 2019 I'll be out of status and would need to leave the US... — read more 

Was it hit by layoffs? Filed a sev2 SR and no response in weeks - is that normal?

MH :: : There are times managers shouldn't panic when their employees quit, says Oracle's CEO. https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-ceo-mark-hurd-on-when-employees-quit-2019-5

During the golden years of Oracle, there were lots of promotions of developers to Directors, regardless of whether they could manage or not. Some were really bad leaders. Basically, Oracle had a weak advancement strategy for individual contributors... — read more 

I keep hearing about utilities and Oracle; anyone know what's going on in the Utilities area - Good, bad, indifferent?

From the analyst call the other day: I think I would say, Thomas is really building upon a strong foundation, but we are really accelerating and scaling up go-to-market both internally and through our channel partners has been a huge focus. I am... — read more 

Safra and Mark each make more than 4 times what Satya makes per year. MSFT market cap = $1 Trillion / Oracle market cap = $186 Bn. MSFT revenue 90 Bn / Oracle revenue = 38 Bn. Explain.

Anyone have a feel for the potential of success for such a legal proceeding against Oracle in the US in regards to these recent layoffs.

Next week: big show - massive layoffs in China development center. Some hundreds of ppl will be cut there next week. Coming at 8th May! Just to be clear, this is only referring to China? Nothing here will be hit? I'm sorry for people there, but it... — read more 

https://www.digitalistmag.com/cio-knowledge/2018/05/02/dont-fall-for-autonomous-database-distraction-06164477

Seems to be lots of hiring of Directors in both F&B and HGBU teams - and with few or no reports. What do these people do? No clear job descriptions. F&B may have all the new hires but in hotels - most of the same old Micros managers are still here -... — read more 

By that I don’t mean the parts in which the customers are obligated to stay, as they were bullied into signing long term contracts. I mean real healthy parts of the business in which Oracle can be truly competitive on the open market. I can’t seem to... — read more 

Solaris dublin got canned today. 16 got let go. Any other places??

What's going to happen with hotels and FB gbu's? What's the roadmap of Simphony product? I'm getting bored in Columbia office for the past two years.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-oracle-ceo-mark-hurd-makes-tough-decisions-2019-4

Oracle could seriously remove half the management and it would have no effect. But would be a lot of money there to hire real architects and technical people who would actually know what they were doing. Lot of waste in paying layers of directors... — read more 

I’ve seen that a lot of cloud folks were also impacted by layoffs recently. Does that mean that Oracle made peace with the fact that they were inferior on the cloud market and is giving up on chasing the competition? If they had any ambition left in... — read more 

Rumor has it the next round hits a few days before the earnings call. New executive restructuring plan for FY20 will be announced. Twist on theme is that some terminations will be used on employees based on performance reviews, and corporate emails... — read more 

ORCL=Only Real Constant Layoffs

SE LCM senior director moving to other group in Oracle, impact the parent org . Parent org was dependent on him for everything.

I have no indication that there will be any, it’s just that I will be a little calmer during the weekend, knowing that other people haven’t heard anything. So If anyone knows anything , please post.

Employees being cut, yet the number of management states more or less the same. If the playoffs continue in this way, there will not be left anyone for them to manage. Is it possible that we will see some thinning of the managerial structure in the... — read more 

What’s the difference between companies that create value and those that only buy back shares? Well, the market capitalization of companies that make good investments and generate growing revenues and profits go up - look no further than MSFT. And... — read more