I believe the current package provides for 1 week per year of service capped at 26 weeks. Can Oracle change these terms without notice?

Can someone share what the difference is between an Oracle sales consultant vs solutions consultant?

Much of the layoff discussion here is focused on SPARC/Solaris. How likely is the Intel system group going to be impacted? Will this area be spared? Are they considered a key part of the cloud strategy at Oracle?

If you want you know if you will be laid off on any given day, check you vacation balance when you arrive in the office... If your vacation balance has mysteriously been zeroed out that means they cut your final severance check which includes your... — read more 

I'm an engineer in ME and have been thinking about the timing of the currently speculated events. Why kill off HW at this specific moment? The first sign was of course canceling Exadata SL and LoS which was really strange as they had really doubled... — read more 

Start a fake rumor and wait until it gets confirmed here with great certainty - my point is that at this time the best course of action is to just prepare yourself while finding something to do that keeps you sane - meaning not this site

Is this a 'sign'?

I just got an email from the company asking me to verify contact information to updat "tax and payroll" is this my hint about my impending layoff?

Should we be nervous oracle just asked many of us to update our home and work locations?

Well since we dwelling in rumors ... here is what I have heard: Aug 24 is the next doomsday. Some say it will be HW only, others say Solaris will also get whack. New colleges grads, especially in SCA, are going to let go, the reason being that given... — read more 

When assessing whether there will be a sufficient number of employees suffering an employment loss to trigger WARN, an employer must be cognizant of WARN’s 90-day aggregation rule. Under this rule, separate layoffs during a 90-day period at a single... — read more 

What are you guys hearing recently?

Does anyone use Blind App - they claim to have 2500 users from Oracle registered sharing information - I am thinking about switching from TheLayoff.com to that app if it is worth vile? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance...

There will be a substantial reduction in Colorado hardware on 8/24. Groups will be cut between 50% and 100%. Many brave managers have informed their impacted people already.

People in HW are totally in the dark . They have no idea what is happening . You go to work in the morning not knowing if it's your last day there . Since when O become the new apple as far as keeping things confidential. What is all this secretive... — read more 

No reported major layoffs this week. Total for FY18 remains at 4,500; total since 6/1/2016 remains at14,500. More HW layoffs expected in the next week or two. Good luck everybody

Assuming the worst case scenario that HW is closing and the layoffs are imminent. any expectations on "when" ? That would help the people who are preparing for interviews / H1B visas manage their time . Some says: end of (August)/ (Sep 1st) Others... — read more 

(Fictitious disclaimer: Any resemblance between the characters in this post to any persons, living or dead, is a purely a coincidence) ... adding this in in case the layoff rolls over on me and spills my IP address or something. Take this post for... — read more 

How was the rah rah session in Austin yesterday ?

Just got off the phone with an oracle SC in IPAAS / IAAS who is looking to leave Oracle. He is not alone, apparently he has had 9 managers in the past year. He got a call asking him to help train up several newly hired college grads in OD. They were... — read more 

This is where the money is, so it'll be nice if can get a major piece of the pie. http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-most-influential-advertising-company-2017-8

Based on discussions and what we hear from internal sources, HW/sparc is on life support . The question is when they will pull the plug . However, O will announce M8 and they will make a big deal about it . It is a good chip after all . Here are few... — read more 

Attrition is acceptable?

Looks like Oracle's strategy is to replace Cloud SCs and CSMs with ECAs. Or at least it seems there are suddenly a lot of folks with the ECA title in Aria (looked under Hamidou's org. as an example). What is the thinking here? Is this just a... — read more 

You're manager should have already given you a heads up, if not and you're in systems or HW, the plan is to lay you off by months end. If you worked for JF, you're part of staggered layoffs for the next month plus, start applying elsewhere. Even if... — read more 

Oracle Lay'ed off my entire team in June, and moved our jobs to a low cost center in Romania. Safra Catz is on the Trump transition team, but Oracle is still out sourcing US jobs behind the scenes.

https://thefly.com/landingPageNews.php?id=2593104&headline=ORCL-Oracle-launches-two-new-realtime-banking-solutions https://thefly.com/landingPageNews.php?id=2593106&headline=ORCL-Oracle-releases-Banking-Payments-solution-worldwide Interesting choice... — read more 

Oracle offers graduates of top CS programs competitive packages and even slightly better than average packages. Yet, relatively few take those offers. One candidate we tried very hard to recruit (MIT grad) said that he heard Oracle was slow... — read more 

A keyword search on the Oracle careers page for either 'Solaris' or 'SPARC' returns over 75 job postings across the US. How can they be laying off Solaris and SPARC engineers and at the same time be hiring?

MH is rumored to be leaving oracle. Massive cuts are broken down by quarter after a post on the layoff.com went viral and he was questioned about it on CNBC. MH called it "fake news" and the layoffs were scheduled by department by quarter to avoid... — read more 

In all of my decades of working in tech, I have never seen layoffs handled as poorly as they were on August 3. 20+ year employee neighbor of mine, this is how it went: manager walks into their office at 11:00, after employee was asked to be in by... — read more 

What is the reason Oracle is not able to attract the top talent in the silicon valley. Is it just compensation, internal politics, reputation of being cheap or something else.

http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2017/08/07/the-5-candidates-most-likely-to-replace-ibm-ceo-rometty/

How many posts here are from Oracle's competition, using an anonymous place to pour gasoline on a small fire to try to scare clients away from Oracle, thus fattening their own pockets? Thoughts?

In view of all the unannounced layoffs and deprioritization of various development efforts, which oracle products, other than DB, can a customer buy without having to fear that they will not be supported / will be terminated going forward? Very... — read more 

Well as we all know the peace would not hold and so we had layoffs this past week again, mostly hardware as oracle has decided to leave the HW business. LYoff this week aboutb 500, that beings FY18 to 4,500 and the total since 6/1/2016 to 14,500... — read more 

Anyone who worked in consulting knows how things work here as it relates to layoffs - when times are good and our consulting pipeline is healthy we tend to hire. There is a bit of a lag here as you cannot hire fast enough and typically it takes a... — read more 

It is not a secret to anyone that oracle has systematically been laying off employees for the last 18 plus months, by now some 15,000. Yet oracle has refused to make any announcements and has spread the layoffs so as to minimize the need for WARN... — read more 

For the past few years, MH has been requiring that NA Sales employees must respond to the annual employee survey. It was mandatory and online. It was executed by a third party firm. The SVPs sent a couple of emails out about the importance of it... — read more 

I have read many posts about Sales Consulting..any insight as the impact on Oracle Consulting (OCS)? the 800 people organization which nobody knows their actual function..!? ( with current high bench ratio )..