Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

@cg thank you Sir!

I am a product manager, live in California and accepted EA role Sunnyvale finance software maker $75 per hour. Be flexible and ready to roll your sleeves. This role allows me to pay my monthly bills, network and much more.

I got 68 y/o this year, was laid off from my P.SWE position at OCI (Burlington, MA) last August. Started a new P.SWE in a small company in a ten-minute's drive from my home this February. Hybrid in-office/remote presence model but I come to the office every day, since it's so nice and quiet there. Paid less than at Oracle (of course, and thanks to my years at Oracle, I don't care anymore), happy and balanced much more than at Oracle, am enjoying each and every day of my new work experience and life in general. I am now programming in my beloved but long not practiced C++ rather than in what might have come my busy way back at Oracle. I was doing all kind of hard and hot things while at OCI, with no good understanding or no understanding at all, and no gratitude from about one half of Oracle managers I had to deal with during my 8.5 years at Oracle, on about ten OCI teams (with a temporary damage to my health while working for an especially inadequate AWS transplant.)

During my six-month-long work search, I had enough interested inquiries from various companies, local and remote, and quite a number of technical interviews, some of them quite satisfying for me. Never had a feeling that my age was a problem for being considered for a position.

The job market is very bad and it will not get fundamentally better. The company where I currently work, had its own layoffs since I joined in February.

No advice can be given but sharing real inside and/or outside life stories is interesting and helpful.

Although... Advice to all who reads this: Do not post nonsense on this board. Google answers to general questions. Write intelligently, with good sense and grammar. Be better than others in all ways you can.

@bf what was the time frame from the start of your search to your hire date. What is your area of expertise, and approximately where is your location?

Same here, I was told I will be competing with younger people and it will very hard to find work. It did not deterred me. I identified about 50 medium and large size companies as my target. Also Location is MORE important versus salary for me. Every week I will go over their websites and applied directly. I posted my resume via monster, Indeed/Simply hired. I only put my landline phone and email. Boy, I get tons of recruiters calls non-stop despite that I already found full time work. The only caveat some companies expect you to be in office 5 days a week, 8 AM - 5 PM, some HIGH intensity 24x7 companies offered about $185K or more. If you are single and no commitments HIGH intensity with HIGH salary might work for you. I looked for BALANCE and target companies closed to home. A prestigious large company had a decent market salary range posted on their website, but it was known to pay very LOW. Once I interviewed and passed HR and hiring managers, recruiter low ball me and I counter offer by asking how much they can push. They did push $3K. Do not be afraid to speak up if you don't, nobody will know your needs :) Research the companies, prepare a list of questions, if interview is via zoom, dress for the part. You get judged by the way you present yourself even by zoom or MS team. If you do not get the job or answer, still send a Thank you note as a courtesy. Good luck and keep POSITIVE.