Consulting NA RVP team laidoff -250 strong team vanished. Cloud is the key for survival.

Looks like the layoffs this past week totaled about 500

as part of current corporate wide. CLOUD" training...management is claiming 5 biion$$ annual R&D expenses...what inovation this money is spent on??

Since Hurd joined Oracle in September 6, 2010, Oracles quarterly revenue has been between 8.5 and 11.32B. Its peak was in May of 2014, before the pivot to the cloud at 11.32B. It has not returned to that peak since and it will not again. Hurd and... — read more 

Oracle has not had a good record with supporting women employees. I believe there is a lawsuit against them from the labor department, since they do not hire women. I also read a 2003 lawsuit filed by a woman for s-xual harassment. She was sabotaged... — read more 

we close to 20k? any updates? are we done?

As everybody who's ever worked at oracle knows,oracle's biggest obstacle and largest constraint is LE - his mindset and ego, and therefore the people he hires. His belief that cloud was just toy delayed cloud development, his view that sales people... — read more 

I know a number of folks (including me) from the GBU's took a hit. Is it as bad as the other areas or were they spared? How about OU? Good folks working in both.

Oracle is trying to muscle in on its incumbent cloud competitor in the most amusing way. Oracle is not aware of the well trained staff onsite at the customer showing the exactly how to migrate apps to the cloud. Instead its plan is a bunch of college... — read more 

I wasn't laid off in this latest RIF but a bunch of my previous co-workers were. I luckily found work elsewhere earlier in the year because I knew something like this was guaranteed to happen - as soon as they stopped backfilling headcount of people... — read more 

G'day! Since Oracle removed Support Teams (TSC) in several European countries already, who is gonna be next? I think the countries of uncertainties now are: Austria (?) Belgium Germany Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Spain United Kingdom Are there any... — read more 

I was interviewing yet again and trying to explain my work in helping Oracle build its Cloud Systems and was asked if Oracle uses Azure or Amazon as its platform for SaaS... either I am not explaining it right or no one knows anything at all about... — read more 

I was really upset when I got laid off May, lost RSU's, great reviews, made no sense etc, etc, etc - you all know the story heard over and over BUT this old fart is looking at multiple offers coming in that looks to double my income and allow me to... — read more 

The shares of Amazon, google, and Apple are all surging; oracle stock going nowhere - has been flat since last warning call. What else do you need to know!

So, one of these posts points out that management is interested in moving to India in a big way. Other posts indicate that great performers are being harassed and attacked and the management is participating in this. Other posts indicate that there... — read more 

I started to 'Break Bad' while working here around all these psychopaths. So excited on the front-end but so limited when reality set in. I could not innovate, no one had any authority, duplication of efforts, harassed, child managers, just a real... — read more 

Been working at an IT system integrator company for 15 years doing Siebel and other Oracle products. We don't have any new Oracle business coming in anymore. Clients are spending all their new money on non-Oracle Cloud and keeping existing Oracle... — read more 

Being laid off is much preferable to what I went through last year. I was sabotaged, lied to, harassed, manipulated, etc, until I finally quit in disgust. It was intensely stressful. I had gotten 4s and 5s out of 5 on my reviews, had gotten really... — read more 

Final notice for France will be June 6th. So rumors tell, next country in line is Spain (sometime this summer) and September it will hit UK. Germany will be the last large country standing and will probably fall after September, but probably still in... — read more 

If you're in sales --get whatever deals you have closed this quarter and concurrently line up a new job and get the hell out . The meritocracy, or the meat grinder or whatever dysfunctional oracle sales org description is not going to changes Get... — read more 

How likely is it that Oracle will be making a move to acquire Avaya? Any thoughts on this?

The real motives behind the 2017 summer reorg... @NEKOz7L February 2016 Oracle CEO Safra Catz went to India this month to meet with Oracle customers and partners and to hear directly from Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi about his far-reaching... — read more 

It's been going up since May not down.

Two posts in the forum were very spot on @N2UeFdk @NkiQdKE What is missing in these posts is how the ones who got the layoff or firing were selected. It is true that most of the Veteran field sales positions are being replaced by Oracle Digital. The... — read more 

Two members of my team have been laid off today so far. Not sure how many more.

that's all there is.. sad part--".. to go to local Oracle office-- no mileage/expense, etc.. will be reimbursed..!! that show email reads..not a dime extra spent on employees.. the new employee benefit is,'..work as minimal..and less..and f*@ the... — read more 

The upcoming employee summit shows desperation. They never have a global 'Employee Summit' Usually, they have some stupid town hall with MH repeating the same BS he gave on the analyst call. Dear Oracle Team: We have been on a remarkable journey over... — read more 

Layoff in France: 155 on 259. All the technical support 48/48 !!! Official source. Who are next???

When Safra became a president, she canceled any activity that might cause Oracle to pay for ....for ....help me God.... for food & drinks for the employees!!! Or any event that might make the employees feel like they are getting a treat from their... — read more 

Anyone?

http://marketrealist.com/2017/06/oracles-cloud-strategy-combines-net-neutrality-rollback-databases/

Make yourself familiar with your VP/SVP org on Aria. It will tell you their total reports. If you track this regularly you can see any trends. Also if a particular eng organization is significantly hit like Systems then it is almost a foregone... — read more 

Oracle is not, nor has ever been, known for being a warm & fuzzy work enviro. It's a well known meat grinder. At least in sales it is. Everyone knows this is what the oracle brand is about. You produce or you're out. Plain & simple. Most, if not all... — read more 

More layoffs taking place today. Happening now. Got a call form someone who just got the call they are toast. Its Customer Success (aka Customer Service) and theirs is a re-org/re-alignment.

SC is a Trump enabler - shame on her!

So absent announcement from oracle it looks like the layoffs were as follows: (1) Q1&2: 5,000 people, (2) Q3&4: 3,800 people, (3) June 1: 2,500 people. This bring the total for the year to almost 12,000

Unhappy people should be proactive and leave at the earliest opportunity, and not stay and whine before their doomsday at Oracle arrives.

Hum...We think we have a bunch of trolls from SalesForce slumming around. Head count increased by about 700... fake rumors people....

I know this might seem like a stupid question. But, I have always wondered about the people are selected for the layoff. I have been here for 15 years. I went through this before. How are the SCs and Business Development employees selected? Is it... — read more