So please explain why long term and very capable employees were not given the opportunity to be re-purposed into other job openings? After years and years of A+ performance reviews - a layoff for me today? Isn't that retarded? I mean even for those... — read more 

They stole all my stock options, gave me 2 hours to spend my FSA YTD, left you facing not having health insurance next day nor pay and nothing else unless you sign an agreement. How much easier to say hey man, everything rides as is for 2 months but... — read more 

According to SC talking to the Hindu News, oracle is now an Indian - American company. So there you have it

Rude, arrogant management. Treats employees like dogs and customers like they are totally disposable. I hope they go right down the drain.

Time just published its list of the top 20 most important people in tech. Google has a bunch of people on it. Bezos is on it. Tim Cook is on it. Pichai is on it. Nadella is on it. Ginny is on it NOBODY FROM ORACLE IS ON IT, which makes sense. Oracle... — read more 

It's about time to get rid of traditional SCs who got the ECA tittle, but lack cloud experience. Next, product management who doesn't deliver or do not collaborate with the field.

Looks like there was a service layoff across multiple locations this past week, up to 50 people, bringing the total to 3,750. The big one is coming you way, get ready.

Oracle is a classic case of failure - flawed mental model of the management team. It's the next Kodak, xerox, wang .... name your favorite tech failure. Here today, gone in a blink of an eye

Our customers- hate us because we can't follow thru with infrastructure demands, truth be told we can't because we are a smoke and mirrors establishment we tell the customer what they want to hear. MH no layoffs, I call bullsh!t why is it i have have... — read more 

Have any of you ever look at who sits on the oracle BoD or thought about what if anything they do. What board in its rigt mind would have hired MH? Approved having 2 CEOs? Approved the kind of comp packages the theee stooges are getting? Put up with... — read more 

The company has no purpose, no concern for or interest in its customers and employees, and no culture worth talking about, other than its focus to make as much money as possible. A vampire squid reflective of the greedy vampires at the very top. If... — read more 

Decisions have already been made as to who is being let go after Q1. There are some pretty significant reductions. The reason MH says there are no plans to do layoffs is because they plan to replace the older legacy headcount with younger workers at... — read more 

What were the layoffs this week?

I know a lot of readers will see the blatant negativity on this board but some of us are more than content with Oracle as a company. We've got great benefits, a world class brand, and have great leadership in this company. As the stock approaches a... — read more 

A direct quote, as stated by MH on CNBC (link below): “I think that’s fake news. I’ve seen a couple of reports over the past two weeks, including that we were going to make a big acquisition. There is no merit to that whatsoever. I saw a report that... — read more 

Regarded as the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS... Source: fortune.com/2016/11/22/amazon-cloud-conference/

There is a troll that inserts words "fake news" into every single thread therefore polluting the board with irrelevant and spammy posts. Please act according to your "Unwelcome content / Spam" rule as well as the User Agreement where you say: "Spam... — read more 

Here is the thread on AT&T's board: @N7q5lHG or https://www.thelayoff.com/t/N7q5lHG

Well, well, now that we know that MH and his minions are paying attention to this board, let's ask him some questions. I'll start: how many people will be laid for for the remainder of this fiscal year, and how many are planned to be laid off next... — read more 

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/oracle-ceo-mark-hurd-interview-att-deal-no-layoffs.html Keep in mind that the source of the rumor published on the TheRegister site is a rumor from this board, which in turn, quotes the TheRegister article.

Oracle is reminiscent of IBM of, say, about 1985. Arrogant. Monopolistic. Just becoming aware of their own mortality and trying to steer an enormous ship away from the iceberg. They may succeed, they may not. But decades of chickens are coming home... — read more 

Today, myself and 6 of my coworkers were giving our walking papers, we were all ex-Sun field service reps in Ohio/Kentucky area. I was told this was happening in many cities in U.S.

The Register [UK] Reorg Coverage: Massive Oracle sales re-org to accelerate cloud cash drive ||| On-prem product sales canned for Cloud Architects (link below) ================ Oracle is restructuring sales to make more money from cloud, with... — read more 

want to leave oracle, when should notify manager about that? Thanks.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2468736/data-center/mark-hurd--it-seems--was-hated-by-hp-ers--and-concall-.html

What do you expect ? Every major IT firm has gone through the transition from being a software product company to being a software service company. It's not a zero sum change. IBM went through it, Microsoft went through it - and now you're seeing the... — read more 

Also, this long list of wonderful companies we acquired over time... Do not listen to all folks who complain and whine - we are doing fine, we are buying companies left and right and we generate an immense amount of cash flow that helps us finance... — read more 

Safra Catz the CO CEO of Oracle, just dumped 90% of her stock in Oracle in the past two months. On 03/21/2017 she sold 3,000,000 shares of her 3,461,860 total shares owned. That dropped her to 461,860 and then she sold another 103,520 shares on... — read more 

Oracle is a joke. Customers are being bombarded by a dozen different reps pushing solutions, which, in most cases, aren't adding value to their organization. Competition is winning with better, less expensive offerings. We're expected to sell... — read more 

The reorg as described would result in massive declines in revenue and would not solve any problems related to selling cloud. Selling at Oracle is extremely difficult due to complex licensing policies and bureaucratic rules. New sales reps are... — read more 

How can the ECA's and other pre-sales engineers be expected to succeed when Oracle won't even make the investment in giving them their own cloud accounts? That's just pathetic and goes to show you how cheap Oracle is. Now they are looking for a... — read more 

So I will call then number of people laid if this past week at 500, bringing the CYTD to 3,700. The areas impacted include: CW org - 350 JD org EMEA - 140 OMCS - several dozens, say 50 UK - 20 Keep reporting layoffs and get ready for some really big... — read more 

The execs are waiting for the deals to close in Q4, and then the biggest reorg in ten years will happen this June. This post is based on rumors gained from people speaking to the executives inside and outside oracle. This perspective has been... — read more 

Looks like lots of layoffs reported this week, let's review and verify CE org - 350 TK org - 220 JD EMEA org - 140 MCOS - several dozens other ? Is this correct? Is any of this double counting? Anything missing

Much easier than most people think. All you need to do is persuade gullible LE that your stupidity is actually brilliance. Just loook at MH and how he's singlehandedly destroying the sales organization and how TK has waisted billions producing... — read more 

Oracle Support will exacute a reduction in force next Wednesday. More Support layoffs coming at all levels.

Interesting read. https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/618305/netsuite-oracle-unveil-combined-plans-global-cloud-domination/ "We are now a global business unit inside of Oracle," he explained. "That means all sales, all services, all support and all the... — read more 

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/oracle-plans-internal-startup-outpace-194209523.html Watch out! Oracle is coming back. Oracle Corp. is forming a unit it's calling a startup within its U.S. operations to work on new technologies that may... — read more 

Folks in the HSGBU, keep an eye out for IBM Watson life science job postings on the web, new sales/ acct mgmt positions opening up

When Keith Block was in charge of sales, it might have been 65-70% of the people made plan. Now the plan is super complicated, and maybe 25% of people or less make plan. Why would a good sales rep want to work for Oracle when the management team is... — read more