Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Brainstorm for Yourself, Not for Oracle Clowns

From my experience at Oracle...

Stop sharing your big ideas or new project concepts with management. Most of them honestly don’t understand the real technical depth behind the work.

They rarely join brainstorming sessions or real idea discussions. They only show up when the final result is ready. They don’t want the struggle or hard part of building something. They just want the finished product handed to them so they can approve it, sign the document, and take the credit.

If you suggest new ideas or projects before having complete results, management might even start seeing you negatively. And honestly, a lot of these managers can’t even get proper resources or support for their own teams. They have just something called Managerial EGO.

They love starting trendy discussions around hackathons, POCs, innovation, learning sessions, and all that. But most of the time, they only know the buzzwords because they heard them from someone else. They build vocabulary, not actual understanding.

At the end of the day, you’re there to finish the work assigned to you.Not to help management look smarter using your ideas. Some of those ideas could actually become your own startup someday and make you far more successful instead of helping useless managers climb higher.


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Time ago I stopped to give ideas to innovate. It was easy for M levels to get the ownership of my ideas and win prizes, awards and this kind of things.

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New products? They are just like a shark swallowing companies. They acquire a garage startup with a calculator app? No problem, it now will be renamed as O Quantitative Computation-As-A-Service.

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The demographics tell you everything you need to know about the company's trajectory. Look at the average age of the managers and the engineering teams—it is an echo chamber of legacy thinking. Even worse is the structural bloat: having 5 managers for a 15-person team is absurd. Why is there so much management overhead for so few actual builders?

When leadership talks about "new products," it is honestly a joke. This company doesn't build; it buys and ki-ls. Just look at the graveyard of acquisitions: Hyperion, PeopleSoft, WebLogic, and countless others. Innovation here is strictly purchased, never engineered from within.

The forced, agonizing transitions from R12 to Fusion to Cloud wasted the time, energy, and careers of 20,000 to 30,000 employees. The company burned the vast majority of its workforce fighting a desperate, poorly executed ERP battle instead of pushing actual technology forward. in this time, AMZN/Workday/salesforce/meta/ and many other company became 2-5T , but oracle remained same.

Let’s be honest about what this company actually is. It is not a modern tech company. It was a database company that morphed into a business applications company. It was never truly a cloud company, it will certainly never be an AI company, and leadership at the very top is still stuck dreaming of their 1990s glory days

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