Larry et al have majorly failed oracle. Failed to see the cloud revolution coming, failed to react even when it was obvious, and now failed to identify the people and resources they need to catch up. Oracle has been bloated with redundant legacy... — read more 

Heard (more than one source) that Sales Consulting got cut globally across all business units, like 20%

Originally a Sun employee then to Oracle. Now with 12 years in, I must say it has been a wonderful ride. I have not received any raise but did receive a $1,200 bonus a few years ago. All in all it has been a good 12 years to be with a well managed... — read more 

I left Oracle a few months ago, so here is my take on the culture and layoffs… Let’s tackle layoffs first… There is nothing unusual about Oracle Layoffs, you see a ton of jobs lost on the infrastructure side as more stuff is moved to the Cloud. If... — read more 

Communication @Oracle is poor at best. Often, employees hardly know what is going on throughout the company. Decisions are almost always made with haste without communicating to all diverse groups we have. A lot of lower level employees concern or... — read more 

I've been here for about a year, the company has some really rigid and fairly old internal processes - you will be surprised or if you work here you hate it.... Super high turnover, attrition is thru the roof at Oracle. Many jobs and groups are... — read more 

It's started in UK . Ex Sun are targeted but not exclusively. Time to go .... The big red has had its glory days ! There's no apparent strategic logic to the nature of the job cuts. It looks like non revenue generating roles are most at risk . As... — read more 

Severance can be reasonable however the management stinks, especially mid management who are just puppets with no power, influence or soul!

Yes, Oracle sucks. Ellison a 1 percenter who neo-liberalizes work offshore. It's time to elect new politicians to punish multi-nationals who are killing american middle class. Good night and good luck.

Does anyone know if the call center in Orlando will continue to exist? I heard many rumors that Oracle may be closing it and cutting jobs (moving work overseas). Nothing can surprise me anymore but we are fairly busy and I do not think that... — read more 

I am not sure why some people have a dark need to bash the company that pays their wages. Seriously??? I know that Oracle occasional has layoffs, but what tech company does not have layoffs? Technologies evlove, strategies change. I think we have an... — read more 

Oracle Columbia, Maryland, Layoffs employee on May 20, 2016. They shipped job to Budapest.

They're making working there (tech analysts) SO difficult they're hoping to force employees to quit rather than foot the bill for exit packages... And, it's working... Australia was just the most recent domino with NO new hires with the experience to... — read more 

Reliable sources indicate that there are Oracle HR meetings going on at this time focusing on layoffs to take place on or about Tuesday 31 May 2016. Unfortunately no specifics available regarding which business units or areas would be affected... — read more 

Sales, presales and others - major cull in Oracle UK

Ex-Sun employees targeted for next round of incremental layoffs to reduce 10-20%.

UK support staff was wiped out. only 1 left. Swiss Java Team wiped out entirely. major hits to support staff in France, Germany, Italy. upper managemtn filling in with "warm body" new hires from Bulgaria, India, China, and Brazil

My husband has survived StorageTek to Sun to Oracle, 19yrs in same dept. Watched others hand over their badges & heard of final papers be delivered FedEx. (Chicken, to make others do their dirty work) Lately, in addition to requiring use of own... — read more 

2016 Job Cuts Due to Technology Shift (Customer Switching to Cloud, Legacy Skills Demand Drop) 2016 Layoffs Predictions - Global Equities Research, Trip Chowdhry Oracle: Global Employee Count 132,000: Layoffs: ~20% layoffs = ~26,000 workers to be... — read more 

You will never, be given any raise that is any less than pitifully insulting for the amount of work you do. Think 1% or less every few years, if you are lucky to get any at all... Meaningful bonuses are awarded to sales people only, and if you are... — read more 

Oracle groups are in silos and too much of acquisitions leading to integration challenges. This sucks in every aspect and if they bring in one group that may be bigger than yours you may be laid off - that's the Oracle way... Also if you happen to be... — read more 

What a lively discussion at &teradata

I am talking about CRM and NLS divisions - mostly from RNOW acquisition.

A lot of government agencies and healthcare providers have protocols to have support in the US and certain support folks need to go through background checks. We are not talking about billing and credit card support here where support calls last 5-10... — read more 

Oracle shuts down CMC team globally.

Oracle works to keep only 4 countries for support; USA, Romania, India and China. Already Egypt, Spain, Belgium had been layoff. Next is UK, France, Germany. In USA, they will keep only 3 centers and close all the others. Centers are Utah, Colorado... — read more 

Perhaps they are hoping that most of the people in the UK will get scared and leave anyway and then the redundancy payouts will be minimised. The Egyptian layoffs were scandalous - turn up on a Monday, told to go home! That's what happens when you... — read more 

What is the likelihood of Oracle layoffs in Redwood City in 2016? Please let me know if you have any information.

Besides the shedding of the Java Evangelists group and BEA/Weblogic/Fusion Middleware teams, it looks like the BI groups are not backfilling either. Overtime for consultants is getting cut (from 10hr/week to 6hr/week) as well as forced vacations... — read more 

A few layoffs came down in the Americas tech support center yesterday. The tend to do this every Spring in some form. All good, long term, seasoned engineers most dating back to the Sun Microsystems days. Seems we are too expensive in comparison to... — read more 

You'll see a wave of layoffs after things settle down

Oracle Senior Financial Functional Analyst - PH Location: NC (also has a home in Phoenix) Availability: Immediately US Citizen (WILL CONSIDER PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT) • 13+ years of Oracle Financial experience to include implementation, design... — read more 

If you want to understand the future of OC, all you need to do is look at the relative growth rates and margins. ORCL's 2009 growth rate was 10%, Consulting growth was -1%. At the field level, OC has the lowest margin of anything that ORCL sells -... — read more 

Just returned from OU Mississauga office. My training was cancelled because of bunch of instructors were laid off last month!!

will ther be ny mass layof in the upcoming time