JF's org: 20+ year Legacy Sun - here's my experience: Day of layoff - notified via phone by manager (I had a scheduled vacation day) This is your official last day. Benefits end that day, no 30 or 60 day period to find another job. Fed-ex package... — read more 

Had speaks with someone in the know on the HW layoffs. Next round is in September, the list has been compiled and lips are sealed. HW SCs are the main ones impacted with the next round of layoffs. Many field reps will be let go as well. That's the... — read more 

Any info on how much of hardware will survive given M9 is most likely canceled? I'm assuming a small percentage will stay back to do accelerators, but question is how small a team? ASICS have been built in the past with an org of 30 people or less... — read more 

I heard at least a few ECAs or SCs were let go as of July 31st ☹️

Being in a company as it downsizes/restructures is never fun and can lead to a desire to just escape. That is enough reason to look around. However, there are also positive reasons to look at other companies and you should do yourself the favor of... — read more 

Have there been any additional layoffs at Oracle today, or was yesterday literally D-day? Do we have a final number of how many people were let go total? It seems that Oracle is trying really hard to avoid having to send out WARN notices, from what I... — read more 

Rumors are a foot of a year long shift. Here is the plan. This is all runmors, but information is becoming readily available as those in the know leave Oracle and spill the beans. Instead of one massive layoff, the layoffs will be constant through... — read more 

Based on what? Lots of ic4 and 5 got hit. What's your point. You want to just kill us?

Probably the most valuable inside info posted today is that M9 is going to be canceled. Too bad that there are still new features adding, bugs filling and fixing on M9 project. So much money and efforts has been devoted to M9 already. Is there any... — read more 

Based from info I see, this is my conclusion. Oracle bets everything on the cloud business. Based from info I see, this is my conclusion. Oracle bets everything on the cloud business. FS1 is the hardware to use for it. ( internal to provide cloud... — read more 

We have been fired today in Bangalore ZFSSA QA team. In our team, 50% kept for sustaining and other teams are huge it seems. Affected teams are ZFSSA core team (50%), AIE, micro and automation are 80% reduction. Next will be in other regions..all the... — read more 

No reason given for Fowler's exit, no new exec named and no sign of continuous delivery By Chris Williams and Simon Sharwood 2 Aug 2017 at 23:08 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/02/oracle_john_fowler_bails/ Oracle has revealed that John Fowler... — read more 

Which areas were hit and how many people, thanks.

I was not an HR person. Was in OCS for about 5 years during the dot.com days. Saw firsthand how people paid a lot of money for what amounted to nothing of much benefit. I was told that if a salesperson wasn't making $500K then s/he was deemed... — read more 

In various places in the ZFSSA org, marketing and engineering.

Heard that tapes team will last for quite a while. Is this true or just empty assurance? Can someone with inside info share an insight on the future of tapes.

Hearing both types of rumors about M9- canceled and not canceled. If it were canceled, how do they plan to sell M8? Are they not going to announce it at Open World? If it is not canceled, what prompted the decision? Will it go on till end of the year... — read more 

Does anyone know what the Oracle policies/practices are when an employee gives notice that they are leaving the company? Will they pay out vacation hours? Do they make it an immediate dismissal if you are going to a competitor? Does insurance cover... — read more 

From the last few threads, the information is mixed on whether there were any layoffs today in Solaris / ZFS. Folks, please post any you know of? Also, Sparc seems eerily quiet. Are they getting affected this week too?

Study the market, study your competition and get to the point where you are at the top of your game. If you want to stay at Oracle, it will equip you to be in the best position possible to do so. If you are let go or want to leave, you will be ready... — read more 

Even press knows that Solaris is dead, as GITHUB is silent for continuous delivery promise. See: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/02/oracle_john_fowler_bails/ Interestingly, FS1 will not be sold to external customers. Questions are : Is ZFS and... — read more 

Oracle HR acts more like the 1st line of defense for legal. They rarely answer questions that would be standard for any HR department. When I emailed my HR Rep, days before June 30 RIF, I received an email reply notification telling me she was... — read more 

Rumor has it majority of layoffs pushed to September, HR can't get the packages ready in time. Lots of work goes into each round so they pushed back. Don't worry the process is getting streamlined. With any luck things should be faster for the end of... — read more 

Hi, Any news on layoffs in Systems Support in Europe? Spain leaves by Feb 18? What about France, Italy, UK Germany and BeNeLux?

Winter is coming

From what I've heard, Oracle has officially discontinued its annual performance review process. Given that (1) many people haven't received them with any consistency and (2) the review seemed totally disconnected from job security, advancement or... — read more 

How Oracle is losing the Cloud War... Giving its sales people to the competition... I got laid off and they all want me I was let go last QTR as sales consultant. The severance package was good and I have an offer in hand from a competitor, and in... — read more 

How many ? I just got a meeting invite with my manager at SCA tomorrow morning, so I am done.

On one side SK is celebrating that Oracle India won the best region and on the other side, he and his sales VPs are riffing people. There was no transparency on the process and as usual their so called "COO"- Madame DK is the brains behind it. The... — read more 

Is it true that only 20% of the reps hit their number last year? Out of that 20% nearly all had a ULA or PULA renewal? I'm also hearing that all of the quotas rose significantly even as much as doubled?

In Spain they have announced that 39% volunteered to leave the company to get the benefit package. hahahaha isn't that ironic, 39% just do not want to work any longer for Oracle no matter if they know they are affected or not. Most of the 252 will... — read more 

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Laid off last quarter unexpectedly. Process was cool. Notified June 1 worked through June 30. Severance package came in for 4 years of service. 14k before takes 9k after. Just started with MongoDB today. Making more now than I was last year at... — read more 

I have heard of quite a few people being put on performance improvement plans. I have had 3 different managers over the past 3 years and none of them did a performance review. My first manager left the company, my second manager moved into a new role... — read more 

Oracle is a fairly sad place nowadays. I still haven't recovered since getting let go in 2015 after more than 25 dedicated and very productive years. Oracle execs should be ashamed of all things that were rolled out in order to decimate the workforce... — read more 

I've heard that HCM is being used to sort out the layoff list. If, for whatever reason/factor (i.e. age, benefits and total compensation are as good a guess as any), they would like to see you go, then it is just a matter of whether they think you... — read more 

Oracle pulls in a LOT of money and has for some time. A portion of that profit, especially years ago, was funneled into employee salaries, perks, benefits, bonuses, etc. and made it a lucrative place to work. It was a shrewd move by executives -- get... — read more 

anyone have a theory about sparc / the current project ? how the current layoffs rumors are related to Sparc development or the Hardware business in oracle in general ? All companies are doing their own hardware ( amazon , google ... etc ) it would... — read more 

Well another week with no major layoffs, other than a few senior execs - JF and JO. Layoff total stays at 4,000 for FY18 and 14,000 since 6/1/2016. Layoffs reportedly coming this coming week. Good luck all!

https://www.readitquik.com/news/hrtech/microsoft-headed-for-large-scale-layoffs/ "Microsoft is all set to lay off thousands of its professionals from the sales domain across the world, especially the enterprise customer and SME-focused divisions... — read more