First phase was to end work from home. Next is to cut teams to size for consolidations and eliminations. Regardless of how good you think you are targets are set and managers will be hard pressed to cut teams. All BU to be impacted.

Tech jobs make up 12% of the jobs in US do the math. China and India will eclipse our tech in just a few years. They will dominate the server cloud market and software they have massive brain power to do it. Nothing we have is really new that they... — read more 

Regardless of business unit or product line. The strategy is cost reduction and only VP level knows final plan. Manager is unlikely to know what's coming regardless of hiring. Enter at your own risk.

Any updates on Marketing layoffs at Oracle?

Job says location is CA or MA.

Share this website to warn others. Hundreds if not thousands layoffs and more to come.

East Coast sites confirmed

It's cheaper to fire people do any companies fire instead of layoff?

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2015/10/26/oracle_predicts_who_will_own_cloud/ His ridiculous predictions and delusions will only cost the company it's reputation and bring it down faster than you think. By 2025 Oracle will be much less than... — read more 

No understanding how decisions being made. Cuts in profitable areas, R&D and Ex- sun teams hit hard this week more expected. Usually under the radar and not announced in advance.

Enterprise spending is not supporting enormous costs of the Oracle systems with high price tags and licensing agreements. It will get worse with new competition in database. Microsoft aiming at Oracles bread and butter.

How they calculate the package? Two week for fist year and one week for each addition year?

I have a practical question - how does Oracle notify remote workers when they are laid off? How is the exit interview (or layoff interview) conducted - who participates and what do they tell you. Thank you!

No team is safe once the hack the groups down they will reorganize and consolidate. The point now I to gain as much efficiency as possible to compete on price. It's big hill to climb and profits and revenue are slipping with the transition to cloud... — read more 

I've heard from several former Sun Microsystems employees who got hit - some of them had 10-20 or more years of service under their belts. No official announcement that I can find. Seems to be simple cost cutting - I'm guessing quarterly earnings are... — read more 

I was working on Outside In - the product which could read over 400 file formats and convert them for viewing, printing, PDF, etc. Oracle shanghaied 2/3 of our development group last spring for other projects and the remaining 17 got the ax Tuesday... — read more 

Main impacts in Java Platform, IOT, webcenter sites, Watch for Aria information on Inderjeet - Was 5500 HC last year, we're at 5009 now. How about next year ?

Post any odd changes in BU's to give people a heads up and share the layoff site. Intel site is on fire since their big RIFs started in the spring. Time to plan.

Teams in the US will see biggest impacts. Prepare for the worst.

In the statement, Hurd said Donatelli joins Oracle “at a pivotal time, when we are the only major hardware company in the industry experiencing growth." 2015 statement by MH. How exactly did the hardware business grow with YoY revenue declines?... — read more 

Looking to leave to Amazon lab; am now with Oracle sparc servers CA. Trying to grow my career before they move my job to India or China. China will soon be serious competitor in the cloud server market.

"I highly recommend terrific book recounting why Oracle's merger became the disaster it was, "High-Tech Planet: Secrets of an IT Road Warrior" was written by a former Oracle executive who bares it all in this no-holds-barred description of the... — read more