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 

Any HR folks know what information Oracle provides a perspective employer during a background check? Curious as I keep getting threatened with a PIP.. I've never been fired before so I just want to be prepared. - thanks

Time to wake up from dreaming. Place has always been a meat-grinder and none of you are the first to believe it would last. You don't have to like it - just accept it. I do feel your pain and it is understandable that you feel betrayed. Try to put it... — read more 

I know a lot of field reps that have no support and have no idea what to position. For veteran sales reps the support teams they used to rely on are gone. Customers with on premise needs are being ignored in field. OD is just asking how many cores... — read more 

When will this Oracle Sales layoffs nightmare be over? I just want to do my job and enjoy my family, really - is this too much to ask? I'm worried sick throwing up just sick over this extreme stress. They are just trying to dream things up to get rid... — read more 

I was laid off last QTR but still keep in touch with friends in Senior management. I was a top performing principal sales consultant in enterprise field sales, so I was quite surprised when I was tapped to be let go. I was in the middle of a cloud... — read more 

Building out a Cloud offering that is truly elastic and global is really, really expensive given the need for datacenters around the world and the requirement for secure, low latency connections between them. With this in mind, look at the market cap... — read more 

Job fairs across America. Google it.

While this site focuses on layoffs and there is plenty to talk about within Oracle right now, take a step back for a second to ponder what your own best path forward will be. In some ways, what is happening with Cloud is similar to what happened in... — read more 

I am hearing rumors that SEC is investigating Oracles cloud biz. This comes as no surprise... Anyone hearing the same? Please share what you know and what you experienced while employed at the company.

Cannot find the SPARC Exadata on quoting tools and just found it internally on the EOL list. Just a few month after launching. Guess this is the proof that Linux for SPARC is gone too.

TK exercised his options to buy 750,000 shares in July and promptly turned around and sold them at a tidy profit of $30 per share. Doesn't say much about his faith in the future of oracle, does it?

Major cuts to Systems are coming next week. Solaris, SPARC, and ZFS are expected to be hit hard. Whenever engineers are cut, sales follows swiftly after. Can anybody confirm this, or is it just speculation? I have seen similar comments on other... — read more 

Sales consulting leaders SC Cloud Symposium in Kerala India also saw 23 family members enjoying on Oracle's money. Who and who in Oracle India including compliance legal and finance were there. They all choose to turn a blind eye. Compliance issue... — read more 

JF gone - check aria systems org dismantled under many pieces in different pillars under ES finally time to find another job, maybe Fujitsu is hiring get out until you can, it's just a matter of months now

Organizationally, nothing has really changed inside of Oracle. Some people have been let go. Some have been shuffled. Some groups (e.g. Oracle Digital or India) are growing. But it is, largely, the same organization that it has been for quite some... — read more