Isn’t it illegal to force employees to resign and call it volunteer resignation? It sounds like: take this money and shoot yourself. If you dont do it, we will shoot you anyway, without any severance!! What will happen, if I deny to resign?
Terrible place for new hires
All new hires are laid off.
Why Oracle simply CANT compete in cloud and never will.
LOL, Oracle's cloud business is commercially insignificant, operating at a loss for years. https://www.brightworkresearch.com/ahmedazmi/2019/03/31/what-is-different-about-the-q1-2019-sap-and-oracle-layoffs/
What if we build a better infrastructure than OCI ..
I have better ideas and implemented few POCs to validate the ideas..I have a team who is willing to implement this. We believe the technology is at least 5 yr ahead of OCI. Will we get funding? Time? Approval? If yes, then what will happen to OCI ?
Any US layoffs today?
Looks like the announced layoffs for today are only hitting employees outside the US. Or am I missing something?
Stay away from oracle
Do not consider joining oracle at this point in time unless you are looking to get laid off in a few months. On a normal company you would not have spect newly hired people to be getting laid off, but oracle is no normal company - hiring and layoffs... — read more
Layoff Thursday 4/4/2019
Hate to break it to you folks, but if it’s not already obvious to you, tomorrow Thursday is another oracle layoff day. Best of luck to you all!
Oracle CEO: AI is integrated into our autonomous database
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on the company's investment in its NetSuite division, the app market and the growth of cloud computing. https://finance.yahoo.com/video/oracle-ceo-ai-integrated-autonomous-120638194.html
Campus hires
As per the internal source campus hires are mostly retained.
Noida - Its tomorrow
Director contacted people today evening and told the time to meet tomorrow...60-70% layoffs are confirmed in noida in OIG and IDCS.. I am sad to hear it from a director who never deserved to be even a manager..he just acted smart and saved his a... — read more
If this is true, Oracle Cloud is toast.
https://www.brightworkresearch.com/ahmedazmi/2019/03/31/what-is-different-about-the-q1-2019-sap-and-oracle-layoffs/
Is current round of layoff over?
I know Oracle has never ending layoff, is the current round that started last week over? When is next round likely to start and which geography, groups etc? Anyone has views?
left over people
To all the left over people thinking they are lucky or that they will continue there for ever, or who think people who were laid off due to performance issues etc, please note that Oracle doesn't care a c-ap for any one of you left there. Most of... — read more
Amazon is 100% Oracle FREE!!
The Register: Amazon consumer biz celebrates ridding itself of last Oracle database with tame staff party, Big Red piñata fancy dress. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/amazon_fulfilment_oracle_database/
IDC related - Whats tax treatment of Severance Pay
Friends, I have been laid -off. I am looking for people in similar situation, to learn about the tax treatment that will be applicable to the severance pay, if any? Will there be TDS or the employee have to take care of the tax on their own ? Are... — read more
Oracle #2 in stock repurchases, behind Apple
Which company is actually reinvesting in the business, and which one is a lay-off and chaos machine? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/25/share-buybacks-soar-to-a-record-topping-800-billion-bigger-than-a-facebook-or-exxon-mobil.html
This is an ANONYMOUS site!
Just a word about this site, as someone I know was shown something here and told that so-and-so wrote it, and it was written as if that person wrote it. Was not true, the guy that was pointing to the piece finally admitted to writing it. Just be... — read more
Fusion Procurement IDC
Ppl are running on 5th floor phase 3 and started giving the expert opinion on the people who’re asked to go. Those ppl just don’t the know the basics of their own product. They don’t have guts to ask any questions from their Directors. Managers and... — read more
NAB
With Oracle's history of scooping up companies and then mismanaging them, what has happened to Front Porch Digital? Will Oracle/FPD be at NAB next week?
I cannot forget the manager's smiling face when he read the script
We had been working together for over 10 years, he doesn't have to do it in this way.
Age discrimination class-action lawsuit
Just read an article about former IBM employees who are going after the company for age discrimination. Any ideas if former Oracle employees could do something like this? Would anybody be willing to? The article is here:... — read more
28 employees out in Oracle Spain
We've just been informed that 28 colleagues will be fired during April
When u knew - why still staying @ Oracle?
You guys knew layoff are coming, you didn’t prepare ur self. Why blame companies now? U stayed back to take package? Or some personal reasons!! But stop blaming company now.
theories on selection of people to lay off ?
I was laid off last week. I have a theory about which people were affected by Thanos' snap in this last month : please post here if you see major deviations from it. I see that people who worked from home a lot were laid off, much more than those who... — read more
Unofficial official layoff report 3/31/2019
Looks like another 100 people or so lots their jobs this past week, maybe a clean up to prior week’s layoffs. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 21,836 and counting. Keep looking for jobs outside of oracle my friends, keep looking.
Will oracle know when I start working at new job
Ok so I am in California got hit by layoff on Mar21. So I am still an Oracle employee until May21. Question is say i find another job soon within a month and then start working for new company should I still report this to Oracle or just enjoy... — read more
IDC Noida on target 4-4-the date
Rumors are manager favorites are safe.
Stop being an ostrich with your head buried in the sand now
Friends, the company has just shattered the myth that a job here is stable and that the life here would be on predictable lines. This certainly is not a routine layoff. Employees stayed for long despite the lowest hikes, just because human factors... — read more
Great market for Oracle Engineers migrating off the products you used to support
Amazon Fulfillment just shut off their last Oracle DB. The rest of the world wants out of Oracle's hostage situation ASAP as well.
This VC says a shakeout is coming to enterprise software because Oracle and Salesforce have 'account control' that no startup can match
https://www.businessinsider.com/sapphire-ventures-das-says-enterprise-software-will-see-consolidation-2019-3
The survivors
Now that the bulk of the layoffs is done, Oracle has a different problem at hand. In many cases entire teams have been decimated and at the same time business needs either remain the same or where they have been reduced the ratio employee to workload... — read more
Layoffs in EM products?
Oracle Management Cloud and Enterprise Management go hand in hand. Is there any layoffs happened in EM products?
Bad Management
I posted this in another thread, it has 10 up-votes. Thought I would repost as a thread: This is exactly the reason why Oracle is going down the tubes. Management is corrupt and not held accountable by the management above them. The better people are... — read more
How a 5-minute phone call with Oracle's Larry Ellison led to the creation of the first cloud software company and a $9.3 billion acquisition
Interesting read. Netsuite seems to be one of the bright spots at Oracle going forward. https://www.businessinsider.com/evan-goldberg-netsuite-oracle-2019-3
Amazon Fulfillment off Oracle today
Today Amazon Fulfillment shut off Oracle. Video and pinata party. What will LE have to keep talking about next quarter? Check out @jdarrow’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/jdarrow/status/1111629087947132928?s=09
Cloud layoffs
Post info and numbers here
What was the true purpose of these layoffs?
I know that they don’t need some bigger motive to perform layoffs and that cost-cutting is always on the leadership’s mind, but is there any motive other than that? I believe many of you reached the conclusion that the layoffs had little to do with... — read more
Who gets to choose Victims?
Who gets to decide who should be laid off? Managers/Directors or higher level management?