I was saddened to see few good people go yesterday, employees are nothing but numbers to management. It does not matter how hard you work, it does not matter how needed you are to Oracle. If you do not belong to the management's circle of friends... — read more 

Oracle is in panic mode. They are whacking employees right & left with no thought of what their job was, leaving the rest scrambling to figure out how to cover the rif'ed employees old jobs. Nobody is safe. Totally insane.

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I got laidoff back In 9/1 with other hundreds. This is my first time back to this site . Seeing the same email gave me dejavu. Everyone is lost looking for any news to hold to. My advice to stay till they lay you off BUT act like you already got laid... — read more 

Will a layoff tomorrow happen? What groups, locations? Has a conference call with ES been scheduled?

NAA CSM SaaS witnessed the departure of SM. The GVP of OMC, CB, will be leading the charge. Anyone aware of upcoming changes or what to expect from CB style and approach?

When Oracle sends out the severance and vacation pay, does it deduct Fed, state income taxe as usual? Or do they not deduct the taxes, so we have to pay the taxes later when we file our returns?

Well, we’ll, well, among all the unannounced layoffs, Oracle still hires new people, but to get hired you must have been the VPs chief of staff - yes in DC, so that you can be the vp of government affairs and cozy up to the White House and Congress

We have software in our SaaS fleet that is over 5 years behind on security patches. No one in PDIT cares about security at all. I've actually been laughed at when I said we should be worried about our customer's data. How on Earth can we help other... — read more 

Look all fair in Oracle - jsut thank god you are no in this Indian company, to save on two month basic pay while , this is what the indian IT services firm is doing to layoff employee on large scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhxuG4DXng0 Thank... — read more 

MANDATORY – Systems Organization Announcement Please make your attendance on this call a priority, as your leadership team will be communicating important changes to the organization. Day: September 1, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT Toll-Free Dial-In... — read more 

ES to take a dump on more employees.

Lots of bold, in not necessarily accurate statements from Oracle management this week, but fortunately no major layoffs. Total stays at 7,150 for the fiscal year and 17,150 since 6/1/2016. Expectations of more layoffs to come in coming weeks. Be well... — read more 

This Repost is 100% accurate...expects are managing to the forecasted sales :” If they can't deliver cloud growth in Q2, they can always deliver heads to Wall Street. The market loves layoffs. 5 days ago by Anonymous | Post ID: @PyzfUgV-2tjx” There... — read more 

Is it coming? My director says there is a plan for cost-cutting..

October 2017 This release of Oracle Integration Cloud Service consists of bug fixes. For details about specific bug fixes, log in to support.oracle.com and search for document ID 2304552.1. August 2017 This release of Oracle Integration Cloud Service... — read more 

What would be best for the oracle brand would be swift and immediate restructuring cuts vs the sloth-like endless cuts to bleed out. Just restructure and get on with it oracle leadership! You look “cruel at worst” and “uncertain at best” under the... — read more 

"Oracle cloud can’t even muster a Top 10 place in Gartner’s list of leading IaaS providers. For IaaS, Gartner pegs AWS cloud revenues at more than 80X times Oracle’s. Even in the PaaS market, where Oracle has seen more growth—bumping up from 1.1... — read more 

Oracle has made a very simple mistake, possibly by 4 to 5 years. Everything cloud - now, now, now... Well Amazon, Microsoft, Google, which happen to be worth more than Oracle have made a greater investment in cloud. Oh and happen to have on premise... — read more 

I was affected during the lay-off on August 3, 2017 without any WARN. I had my H-1B selected and approved in June 2017. The petition has not been withdrawn yet from USCIS. I also have my STEM EAD valid till July 2019. The immigration team at my new... — read more 

Well this is interesting: https://www.ft.com/content/7f930ae0-aa19-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97?mhq5j=e6

You have to feel sorry for LE, telling tales and marginalizing competitors used to be easy, but no more. Not only did AWS push back on his nonsense, nor Splunk is giving him a lesson on how not to lose boat races - with better, ie, non oracle BI... — read more 

Past week resignations at Seattle has gone up! Most leaving to Azure or Google.

There is a continued pattern of Sales "including" other apps as part of their purchase. They include a cost associated with these add-ons. After the contract is signed, we learn they never intended to use the add-ons. In our case, these add-ons are... — read more 

Oracle management cannot keep talent on board, after the Sun B.S. many Bare Metal Engineers have friends and family that were impacted. Since Oracle does not care about loyal employees, most are bailing. Oracle has pounded to many nails in to many... — read more 

ES to announce more layoffs next week, please make sure to record. Good luck to all.

https://blogs.oracle.com/bmc/fishworks:-now-it-can-be-told There are many people sad that this era has ended. I count myself as one.

Fiscal 2017 Oracle Restructuring Plan During fiscal 2017, our management approved, committed to and initiated plans to restructure and further improve efficiencies in our operations due to our recent acquisitions and certain other operational... — read more 

If you're in need of more cognitive dissonance: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/cloud-computing-has-demanded-a-kinder-gentler-oracle/

The people at the top don't have any idea what anyone does in Oracle. Experience and knowledge is not valued because they have no experience and knowledge themselves. They got to the top by s---ing up to other management and manipulating the people... — read more 

Belgium and Luxembourg TSC have been send home as well on garden leave, just curious what the clients think about the most experienced engineers leaving?

Hi, Australian employees are being called in to the office for a meeting about Oracle's change of direction with HR joining...

Anyone hear it? Was he on stage with MH?

I got confirmation that cloud architects are being layed off in EMEA. Any news from OOW about that ?

the acquisitions continue .... more fake cloud revenue, and fake customers . https://www.geekwire.com/2017/oracle-cloud-acquisitions-bear-fruit-new-serverless-platform-container-management-services/

Rumor has it that MH held a 'mean tweets' session at OOW, criticizing people who had disagree with him in the past. Sounds truly bizarre. Can somebody who was there comment please

From: https://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-chairman-larry-ellison-takes-aim-at-amazon-1506916787 Last year LJE said Amazon's dominance in IAAS was over, well the numbers are in. Amazon went from 39.8% to 44.2% Microsoft went from 5.8% to 7.1% Oracle... — read more 

Recently an Oracle SVP, Initials SM vanished from Oracle Cloud Managed Services. Much like another level M8 departure, the disappearing act signals more layoffs. The "no human's needed" philosophy is pervasive. Its not just marketing hype. The... — read more 

4 people attended including two sales reps showed up for a Solaris session.

Whether this "Autonomous" product is really anything new or not, LE and company will be able to say that they no longer need as many salespeople, sales consultants, or R&D engineers. The product sells itself! It's self-driving! Look for more layoffs... — read more