When they can’t just alter the job role’s requirements until it is no longer tolerable! Have they made your job more demanding? How?

One of my friend(Oracle OCI oke team - UK), just laid off yesterday. Redundant role is the reason. I

Hey all. I’ve seen it before but what are the thoughts for applying for a job when it’s not in your city/state. Do they allow you perhaps to go into the office near you instead?

Every layoff, it’s the same story: fire older employees to bring in younger, cheaper ones. What they keep forgetting is that younger generations have different priorities. Not many will be willing to work evenings or weekends, among many other... — read more 

And just like that, the PaaS Team has lost it's juice ! This many folks to sell ONLY PaaS, not connecting the dots.....

What are your thoughts about potential Oracle layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

Anybody else? Godspeed to those affected. Being let go from this place may indeed be a blessing in disguise. For health and wellbeing, if nothing else.

15 folks laid off from OCI on 11/1. Some high performers included.

I have never seen so many people hating their jobs, and wanting to leave!

Oracle ANZ where 80% of sales staff is on a PIP from toxic management M.R. and A.J. HR staff at Oracle are actually earning their salaries for once working hard on managing PIP process / resignations and terminations.

Many I know impacted. What's your story?

Let's see how O does when all of their poorly paid support engineers are out.

Been sitting on a job offer for about 3 weeks (waiting on BOD approval). CX, revenue-generating position. Anyone know if there's a freeze or is this typical?

Big Ohai layoff on 1st October

Reorganization! When I first joined Oracle I was told that the one thing that would be constant was change! I now realize that this would be manifested in a reorganization. It comes, as sure a Spring follows Winter, that every few months the... — read more 

With lines like focusing on the bottom line and double digit growth on EPS in the coming years out of today’s analyst day, you have to wonder. Place your bets for which groups get a haircut to help the bottom line and keep those larger than expected... — read more 

What is the sabbatical leave policy at oracle?

So, is Oracle competing for the worst work environment title? Are we in the running for the worst managers or the cr-ppiest culture? Something’s definitely gone wrong in the past several years, turning work into a nightmare. Can someone explain why?... — read more 

Truly Oracle shareholders haven't had it so good with $38.6b of pure profit being added to ORCL's bottom line. That profit helps pay for your RSUs and severance.

A while back I got some good advice on how to leave a situation behind and move on. Good advice should always be shared. I share it here for anyone who has been harassed by anyone at Oracle or elsewhere. This has been very interesting material... — read more 

How long do I have to leave oracle before I can come back and demand a bigger salary?

We are expected to post earnings of $1.32 for current quarter, which would be a yoy change of almost 11% +. For FY we are expected to post $6.19, which would be almost 13% increase yoy. Sales Revenue is also showing a 6-9% increase. And this is... — read more 

Wonder how good Oracle's cloud support is. AWS support seems to have some problems. I had an AWS account for a few months, used the mail send system SES and right before I released they sent me an email saying my 12 months of free tier were over. ... — read more 

I’m hearing it’s “focal” season, how did everyone do vs when was your last “raise”? To me it sounds like these would be considered at other companies: very delayed basic COLA adjustments. Am I wrong in my assessment that many are basically at... — read more 

I am hearing that layoffs are coming to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Q4 to help boost revenue year end numbers. This is combined with a consolidation in OCI Analytics& BI and Big Data teams. OCI and Oracle SaaS account for about 66% of our... — read more 

Thinking of taking a job at a different software company. I've been working for the big O. for a few decades now and was wondering if there is a noncompete clause and if so, how would I go about finding it without asking my manager?

My manager who is on vacation has suddenly called me for a 15 minute meeting. I'm in the Boston area.

I left Oracle some time ago and have since worked at a few companies. Large, small, public and private. What I noticed was that there are just bad people out there. I know it sounds corny, but there are just cr-ppy angry nasty people out there. While... — read more 

Anyone know the max? 8? 10?

Oracle has recently made job cuts in its United States analytics and advertising division, impacting employees in the customer experience division12. The company planned thousands of job cuts globally after discussing cutting $1 billion in expenses2... — read more 

Anyone else get the notification meeting today?

I don't come here as much as I used to, but not surprising to see that things have not changed. I was in the marketing org, which seems to still be on life support. If you are there, tell us how it is, and many blessings to you.

When is OA UK layoff any solid info?

For all of us who have toiled at the big O for years and years and were told that our opinions mattered and we could all let our voices be heard via ESOP, ESPP, Equity Plans all of which were our vehicle "to have a say" in the company. Well, 52%... — read more 

Could anyone working in Oracle share the distribution of employees approximately in each category based on your insights, perceptions and thoughts? E.g. IC2 15% IC3 60% iC4 20% IC5 5% ??? Thanks

Hello everyone, In the past, I was laid off from a large US tech corporation, so I am very cautious. I was recently contacted by Oracle for an open position. Could you please share your honest opinions about the company culture and particularly if... — read more 

What’s going on with layoff’s? Middle mgmt scared? Quiet on harassment lately. Must be difficult not to be hating on employees…

If really nothing good comes out of your time working at any company really, I'd question if this rather has to do something with personality. I worked at great and also mediocre companies in my career so far - with Oracle being in the mediocre... — read more 

Got meeting invite on Monday from SVP. Does anyone know if it’s for layoff?