Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Taking 20 years ago "peoplesoft" example. Someone else can take the innovation risk or vibe code risk, and Oracle can buy in the product if it helps Oracles customers/portfollio. (Just sweat current employees products tech). Great time to be a produduct manager outside oracle. Coder doomed inside and outside. Slight review lots of AI code opportunity as a senior I guess.

@fy No longer necessary to vibe code. AI agents are taking up the slack.

Looking forward to the RIF. VPs can vibe code now if they any idea what their product does.

I keep coming here hoping I will get RIF soon. I used to be a high performer that is now on a team that has completed disenfranchised me along with no raises. Just want my time at Oracle to end but with severance.

Observed situations where layoff decisions appeared to be influenced more by subjective factors than clearly defined performance metrics, resulting in high performers being treated similarly to underperformers. Also patterns in management decisions that seemed to favor certain individuals while overlooking stronger contributors. At times, organizational changes appeared to be used as an opportunity to remove individuals based on personal preference rather than merit, raising concerns about fairness, transparency, and long-term organizational integrity. Ultimately, decisions that lack fairness and accountability often carry consequences for leadership credibility, team morale, and overall business performance.

I’m at Oracle now and our group is already reeling from the last round of layoffs and I’ve never seen morale this low on 15 years. The last several years of no pay increases have been the cause of many employees quietly quitting, and now Oracle is in a position where it needs to ask its employees to do more, work harder, but many employees, including myself have had enough. If I don’t go in the next round of playoffs, I’ll be walking away on my own. Resign with impact and take the recipe book with you is the thought of the employees who can walk away, which thankfully is me. Oracle is now reaping what it has sown over the last 5 years or so. I honestly don’t know how they’re going to continue doing their day-to-day business well. Maybe they’ll figure it out but from my view internally, Oracle is in a huge mess and it’s about to get worse.

In the grand scheme, critical services rarely break. If they do, especially because the domain knowledge existed within a single point of failure, then removing that single point of failure exposes the danger so that it can be addressed. Rinse and repeat until all cogs can be easily swapped or replaced and you ensure short-term survival of the business. Of course, this says nothing about the long-term trajectory of the business - which likely won't be very good given those with deep institutional knowledge (and the ability to innovate within the existing systems) are gone.

It's the same stupid, short-term mindset that has poisoned business operation in the United States. If the end goal is to extract as much money from the business as possible, it will inevitably rot.

In my 30 years across many organizations and multiple industries, this is some of the most inept and shortsighted sr leadership that I have ever seen. Personally witnessed them recognize a mistake last year when an individual with specific domain knowledge was laid off and no one else could provide the answers to questions that they normally would have without hesitation.