A frank question, what's your gut feeling?

The start of a new week! A great time to start your new job search! You know that you deserve it, and if you decide to stay, well, you deserve that too!

Every quarter we have these mandatory "all hands meetings" where instead of something useful happening, those of us below director level have to sit on our hands for an hour and watch those above the director level use their hands to circle jurk each... — read more 

Left the company but my review is getting a lot of likes.. Pros Money, work life balance, great "part-time" job, benefits. Cons Cons Thanks for taking the time to read my review. I have been with Oracle for over a decade. I write this to give... — read more 

I'm wondering if asking my manager for a raise was a bad idea? However, I don't care much what happens next because I certainly don't intend to stay much longer. My pay has been the same for more than two years and I have incomparably more work than... — read more 

I'm outta there! Oracle is a shithole place to work. Here's hoping a few more people make it out to retirement!

IBM is in hot water once again for age discrimination. Looks like their ELT was openly discussing getting rid of older employees they referred to dinobabies. Sad thing is, we all know similar things have been happening here for years but nobody cares... — read more 

Consider this my rant or warning but I feel people should know the truth because you won't know this during your interviews here. Joining OCI can be a bad decision by many different reasons: You have to work on a project 14x7 (14 hours, all 7 days... — read more 

The start of a new week! A great time to start your new job search! You know that you deserve it, and if you decide to stay, well, you deserve that too!

My manager is only good at demoralizing and demotivating people. How did we end up with such bad management? I don't know what's more weird, the fact that such incompetent people come to manager positions or that, despite their bad work, they still... — read more 

Anybody here work for a OIC group? I know anything or anybody Oracle not cloud-based is treat like hot garbage with no raises, bonuses or really any chance for any respect or investment but how about OIC? Same?

Do the legacy customers that are paying for MDS support for newly minted green Mexican support personnel (Oracle solution to experienced headcount leaving) and no Developers left for Bug/data fixes know this? They should. To the Cloud!

They've already stripped so many teams to bare bones, if they cut any more, especially in this job market, they'd be dooming the company. I know the management views employees as a cost first and foremost, but even they are not stupid enough to think... — read more 

A lot of good posts here, but no one mentioned the cheap import of labor coming in from other countries. Many of the people coming in have such a poor standard for what they expect that they will work in conditions that others from the U.S. think... — read more 

I really have to wonder if buying Cerner for $28B has a realistic payoff to get the kind of return needed to fund an M&A like this. As we know this is by far the biggest acquisition we have ever made -by factor of 3 or 4, it's not even close to... — read more 

Since Oracle does everything in five year plans, I wonder what your thoughts on the reorg, restructuring and resulting layoffs will be this year, considering how the post-Sun acquisition org was gutted five years ago. Will Oracle announce it's ending... — read more 

Think about this when you are wondering where you bonus and raise have gone. LE doubled his worth over the pandemic. But does any of that money trickle down to anyone in the... — read more 

I worked at Oracle for over 5 years. I was averaging 50+ hours a week in a high-pressure/high-stress environment. I never received any significant accolades or recognition from management. My compensation increases were pathetic and I never received... — read more 

Just posting to see how many are interested to stay for money sake

Just food for thought, would it make sense?

My observations of my new company since leaving Oracle. There are hundreds of ex-O’s at my new spot. I was at Oracle for 10+ horrible years in a terrible GBU. They have more training they require you do. A good thing. Training includes talking... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/oracle_audits/

and falling... LE drops in forbes list..painful LE

Ppl on this blog are wondering why there are not so much recent layoffs at Oracle... There is a good reason, In fact, expect the opposite to happen: a hiring spree. Not because Oracle needs more people, but to fill in the spots that are now, and are... — read more 

Usually the views go up when layoffs are coming. So, seems no rumors circulating. No layoffs coming up. Did enough people really leave this last year that no layoffs were needed? What are the estimates of how many people left? How many... — read more 

OCI is woefully underfunded, and their nearest competitors, Google and Microsoft, outspend Oracle 11 to 1 on infrastructure. (Look at capex in the earnings reports.) They need to spend $28 bil on data centers and network capabilities to be... — read more 

I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but when I look at all the colleagues who got cut and those who left because of the enormous pressure (which Oracle often uses to get rid of unwanted people), I come to a conclusion that this company loves... — read more 

Today, Inflation is pegged at 7% annually. Your raise is pegged at X%. How much richer are you?

LE’s management philosophy: “You’ve got to be good at intellectual intimidation and rhetorical bullying.” Softwar: An intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle by Matthew Symonds. Apparently, LE later disavowed this strategy as “inexperienced... — read more 

The last two quarters have provided ample evidence of that. The dreamers set the goals so high you have no chance, but they are willing to pay you $5,000 to bring a friend into this mess. All I can say is ‘make him pay’ for it.

I spent 10+ years at oracle. I had zero formal training besides those God awful compliance cartoons. I’m at a new company now. On my 2nd and 3rd days of my first week of my company I had more formal training (real in job training) than I did in 10+... — read more 

I have never had a positive experience with HR in this company. I'm interested in how these people get to the HR position in the first place. I know that they are not there to protect the interests of employees, primarily the company, but the... — read more 

the worthless Cr-p is falling...like a rock... = https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oracles-stock-falls-toward-record-long-losing-streak-in-wake-of-cerner-buyout-deal-2021-12-31?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

This is how Oracle treats employees from acquired companies: they send you a fedex to say whether you are in or out. they try to adopt the same culture as the acquired company and as time goes by, it completely fades and merges to the... — read more 

2021 was my last year at Oracle. All I can say. I had a nice laugh with a current employee about how much of a joke our old manager is. These are my top 10 observations. Since I’m no longer an employee, I will come back on occasion for laughs. Good... — read more 

Director, Senior Director, VP, GVP, AVP, SVP, EVP. They make up titles just to please you. Don’t be flattered if you have a VP title, especially at NetSuite GBU

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-cerner-liar-cloud-211541212.html ....Critics call Oracle’s products a “fake cloud.” Oracle’s proprietary tools are still embedded in it. Ellison calls it an “autonomous cloud.” This has created a form of... — read more 

Got a nice holiday email a couple days ago from one of the absolute clown directors in my group stating the following: "You are so important for us. Merry Christmas" Notice he said FOR us, rather than TO us. I don't think he actually did that on... — read more 

Honestly, I did a lot of extra work because I didn’t want to lose my job. I thought I would lose my job quickly if I didn't do everything they told me. Now, however, I see that the situation is reversed. It seems that those who do not want to do... — read more