I'm not a VP of anything and I haven't gotten a raise for over 7 years. Nothing no bonus, no raise but I did get 2 "promotions" with no salary increase. I'm at the mid-point of the fake salary ranges and the explanation is that I'm being compensated... — read more 

No major layoffs reported this week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,396. Keep looking my friends!

Should I stay or look outside?

Just wanted to support DOL's allegation that people on visas get underpaid. I am being underpaid almost 10% than the market standard. and 8% below the prevailing wage set by DOL. I have been underpaid for the last two years.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2019/01/31/oracles-newest-audit-tactic-focusing-on-java/amp/

KT's org decided to hide a TON of knowledge articles without even giving us the heads up. Ergo, I cannot give customers km notes to fix their problems, ergo I get bad csat scores, ergo I get laid off.

The Organization has more number of Managers then the Individual contributors. Most of the Manager [ around 90% of them ] stop contributing once they promoted from IC to Manager level. Reporting hierarchy should be made minimal. Make all the manager... — read more 

Do we have or could we start an Oracle Alumni group that offers mentor ship, guidance, references to helps people wishing to move out of Oracle or within. In most companies outside, there are always big observable number of Oracle Alumni working... — read more 

Lot of talk in this group about moving out of Oracle. What are suggestions for someone who has spent 10-15-20 years in Oracle working on legacy technologies. Which skills are more desired in new cloud technologies that could fetch you a new job?... — read more 

If they have some genius idea about the implementation of AI into Oracle’s businesses and a clear idea of how to do it, then they have me on their side on this, but I highly doubt it. I get it that in this day and age it’s s-xy to talk about AI and... — read more 

https://www.thestreet.com/video/oracle-taking-a-holistic-approach-to-the-cloud-14844014 Apparently, Oracle had some 'splainin' to do...

Big bad news all over for Oracle. With all the law suits it seems as though Oracle has gone from making software products to taking up a legal practice. Lets take a look at the top recent law suits: From the US department of Labor:... — read more 

No major layoffs reported this past week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,396. No doubt more layoffs are coming. Keep looking for other jobs!

I am very fond of layoffs. I have had experiences with 6 layoffs. Each one gave me an opportunity to explore another company in the world. I wish I get my 7th one soon and happily seek something outside Oracle.

Not only did Redwood City software titan Oracle favor hiring Asians for key departments, it favored non-citizen Asian graduates of U.S. colleges over American graduates, the federal government claimed in a lawsuit. The Department of Labor alleges in... — read more 

I've left Oracle after 17 years working as a tech sales consultant. I'll give you my perspective on it (the TL;DR version is: I wish I had left way earlier than I did). Oracle technology is incredibly outdated. It was only after I moved to another... — read more 

I am wiping my eyes, as we got a video today from management encouraging us not to include in contracts Cloud credits customer does not require. This comes straight from management. Are they crazy?. Are they joking?. We have all levels of management... — read more 

Thoughts?

Rumor: March 18th after the Q3 2019 announcement that Oracle is shutting down unprofitable divisions. What do you think?

I've been with Oracle for about 22 years now and I am ready to leave. I've lined up a few things and will be moving to a small consulting company, will be doing a very similar job to what I've been doing for a while. I'd like to see if someone who... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/22/department-of-labor-accuses-oracle-of-discrimination.html

It’s clear to me that the company wants to expand its customer base, but who will pay for the hirings at this cloud data center, and for that matter who will pay for the other locations they plan to open worldwide. Don’t want to sound pessimistic but... — read more 

Stop wasting your life. Life has to be good.

At Oracle women earn 13,000 less than male counter parts, 13% less in bonuses, 33% less in stock value. They also represent less than 13% of the executive workforce. Lets face it Oracle does not like women. They need some serious help with diversity... — read more 

A good post: Always thinking of leaving but never leaving because I'm too afraid to leave. I'm over 50 and working from home and being isolated and being in my role has destroyed my career. some of that destruction through a conscious choice to be... — read more 

Anyone here that Oracle is quietly backing away from cloud? The same way they quietly backed away from sun, from hardware and from engineered systems? My understanding is the focus is now on Apps, not cloud. Basically hosted apps for medium sized... — read more 

Been at ORCL for 15 years and I'm an IC (now). I chose to move out of management because I couldn't stand lying to my team and misleading them that there was a opportunity to move ahead and get any pay increases. I was an M4 and was told by my... — read more 

A Quick Poll - Who's Thinking of Leaving? Are you thinking about leaving the company right now? If so, upvote this post please. What would stop you from leaving the company? Is the writing on the wall or is the company going to come back, stronger... — read more 

Looks like about 150 were laid off from IDC this week. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 20,396. Keep looking, nothing good happening at oracle!

After moving most of cloud UX to Seattle there’s a big cut headed to the group in February including all levels of designers.

Women at Oracle are only there to look nice, know their place and keep their mouths shut. Know this if you are a women interviewing there or if you have an offer in hand... — read more 

I see on linkedin we opened a new OCI datacenter in Toronto. That must have created some new jobs.

I have wondered if promotions are happening in oracle. I see them bringing in people from Microsoft and other areas, but I have not seen an internal promotion in almost a year. I have heard of people saying they were in line for a promotion for 6... — read more 

Oracle Office Space - TPS Reports -- Get rid of the fat!! What does this team do? https://video.oracle.com/detail/videos/most-recent/video/5988138737001/2h-strategic-imperatives?autoStart=true

Can former employees (departed last year) download a W-2 from ADP's website? (in the past, the link was in global-ebusiness) or do we have to wait for Oracle/ADP to mail the paper form?

Has anyone else heard this going around the last few days? Workflow/hiring freeze, very interesting considering how many open rec’s there are....

Any news on this?

TK as future CEO of google - that’s funny. I have a cat that can do a much better job and hasn’t hasted tens of billions developing useless garbage like fusion apps. My cat for google CEO and thereafter POTUS !

The answer is pretty simple, feel free to optimize: If (!fake news) { look for new job} else {look for new job} Post ID: @X75FT5H-1rus Exactly.

So I'd like to propose that this site is all fake news and that no layoffs have taken place at Oracle over the past 3 years. Its all just a bunch of rumors. I did look up the Oracle SEC documents 10Qs etc... and I saw over 1.1 billion dollars paid... — read more