It surprises me how many people complain because the manager makes them do someone else's job (mostly the job of privileged manager's favorites). My job is whatever my boss assigns me, but I really don't want to do other people's work anymore... — read more 

I recently left Oracle, thankfully, but haven't received my last paycheck on the 15th. Does anyone know if the last check is sent in the mail or should I have received a direct-deposit.? Also, if anyone has the payroll number, please pass it along.

Oracle has turned into an incredibly slow-moving company with no room left to innovate or be creative. Additionally, there is no room for career growth as nobody is interested in building your skills if you're one of the newer hires. This is no... — read more 

I feel sorry when I hear about someone who has a very bad experience with their manager. Fortunately, our manager is one of those who really knows how to get the best out of employees. Otherwise I would have left long ago. However, the question is... — read more 

Oracle needs to start building things instead of buying things. In order to build things you need builders. If you're just buying things all you need - and value - are accountants. When all you do is buy things then the builders become unnecessary... — read more 

Anyone wiht good manager level or up info - are we tracked and what kind of reports you have on us: Scanned ID cards, logins, LAN? What can you share with grunts and peons?

I handed in my notice yesterday morning. Just couldn’t take the cr-p and the abuse from my manager. Over the years I had a bit of good luck in the sense that I had good managers that understood how work was done and that I could turn to them. Last... — read more 

https://www.owler.com/reports/oracle/oracle--oracle-investors-nab-class-cert--in-securi/1652276830150 Comments?

... and what will be an impact on Oracle?

Taking a look at the Oracle 10Q shows the plan for the big lay off party starting in June 2022. On page 14 the plans to let go of Oracle employees are spelled out. "The total estimated restructuring costs associated with the 2022 restructuring... — read more 

is doing so out of fear and is therefore a desperate L0SER. You don't measure up and sux2bu@oracle.com

Nobody should be the least bit surprised by LE's constant involvement in buying ( and taking down) acquisitions. The fact of the matter is this is exactly how he grew the company and his own bank account in the first place. Oracle has been... — read more 

It's hard to believe that the leadership doesn't care about this company and its future, but I think that this is exactly the case here. Because, if they really cared a lot of things would be very different here, wouldn't they? Everything... — read more 

The subject of compensation comes up at every all hands and our VP just shrugs it off saying HR assures that we pay market rate - a joke! Buzzword is 'Performance-based compensation' - a lie! We just lost more people on our team leaving a skeleton... — read more 

Garter published a recent report. The database market has doubled in size since 2017, almost all of the growth has been in cloud. 2021 market the year that the cloud database market was as big as the on premises market. Oracle: 2017 36%, 2021... — read more 

Oracle was once a place where you could build a career and feel safe about your job. Now with each acquisition employees have to be scared of what reorg that acquisition might produce. A friend whose son is applying for a job at Oracle asked me for... — read more 

Below is Oracle's profile taken from this website. Obviously, it is out of date much like everything else at Oracle. Please update, correct or just write anything you want about any or all sections of this profile. Oracle Corp. company... — read more 

Its been 2 years since I left oracle. After working there the first month I hated my job. The company I worked for 5 years to become a part of, I hated after 1 months. Some fucken manager pi---d me off and had it out to me for 6 years. Should have... — read more 

Had to spend hours training them

How Aurora Serverless made the database server obsolete Version 2 of AWS' cloud-native relational database brings signficant improvements https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/29/how_aurora_serverless_made_the/

Hold on.... I see earlier post about the companies LE is buying up.... but gets even better because today Elon Musk tells that LE was one of the financiers of his Twitter buy out..... it's becoming a joke "deal a day Larry"!! How will you... — read more 

It's nothing but a shadow of its former self. We used to work together to achieve a common goal, now all everybody does is point fingers at each other to avoid any responsibility. People feel too comfortable lying and promising things we can't... — read more 

WASHINGTON — Record-low mortgages below 3% are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise. So will the cost of an auto loan. Savers may finally receive a yield high enough to top inflation. The substantial half-point hike in its benchmark... — read more 

I really don't want to go back. There is no sense in wasting money and time by going to the office, when I can do my job from home without any problems. How many of you would rather take a slightly reduced pay than RTO?

Does anybody here know what is happening with the possible acquisition of yet another company by O? I see LE is one of the players who is bidding up the acquisition cost of an Israeli start up company. After the monumental cost to just close on... — read more 

It was very entertaining for some time, but became silent lately.

Axe-Man, O Axe-Man, come back to us and enlighten us with your Oracle wisdom. Help us to make sense of what is happening around us at Oracle. Help us to navigate through these rough waters, O great exalted One. Axe-Man, come back to us Sir !!!

You heard it here first.

Is anyone a part of RT>MS>MG’s org? What are your thoughts on where this org is going? Any intel? Seems to be getting very heavy higher up. Lots of attrition which means more work with no raises.

After over twenty years working in the database support group at Oracle, I've had enough and ready to move on. Other than just giving notice to quit and walking away without any severance, I am curious if there might be some ideas how to volunteer... — read more 

I wonder why Oracle chooses acquisitions among the opportunities to grow organically or inorganically. Isn't growing a business by acquisitions a greater risk than organic growth?

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https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/25/oracle_software_usage_tools/ Experts in software licensing are warning users against wholly adopting new tools Oracle promises will help map and size on-prem installations in preparation for a move to the... — read more 

Oracle is not a place where you want to work and be mediocre. It is not a place where you should work if you need hugs from upper management just for doing your job (or even doing a good job -- that's expected). Oracle is not the place to work if... — read more 

….is to be found in Gartner’s annual database market share rankings. As you can see, the decline started years ago, and now both Microsoft and Amazon have surpassed Oracle in market share for databases... — read more 

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Solaris-11.4-CBE

A small digression. I recently talked to a friend about how I would like to get out of here and look for a job in a startup, in response to which I received a tip that I should avoid any startups founded by ex Oracle employees. It's funny of... — read more 

They need to start building things instead of buying things. In order to build things you need builders. If you're just buying things all you need - and value - are accountants. When all you do is buy things then the builders become unnecessary and... — read more 

Take a bunch of unrecognizable, distasteful trash, throw it in a big bin, ignite and voila! The perfect representation of Oracle. You can't un-see this. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BlackandwhiteSmugDragon-mobile.mp4