Anyone aware as OCI dev laid off some of the key leads from Outbound org and due that many directs moved in to safe heavens in sales, marketing, Business Ops, OPN and SaaS orgs despite they won’t fit in those roles by leaving their teams in OCI with selfish interest to save themselves and possibly heard they will come back once dust settles? I was told one guy use to have some 20 odd guys to lead partner team moved to product marketing name CV, another guy from enablement JG dumped his team moved to SaaS to lead SaaS enablement with no skills, another ops guy MD with 30 odd guys now moved to Business practices team no skills, another lead TG moves to NA Channels, etc. I was told lot of those guys were laid off from dumped teams. Good guys are laid off bad guys are staying in company unfortunate
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In other words: complete and total lack of strategy and purposeful resource allocation to actually accomplish something in the market place and boy does it show.
OCI is fine. Oracle has spread itself too thin. Getting rid of OCI-C org under OCI should have been much earlier. Oracle should focus in Fusion SaaS+integration and infra+db. Might not be tier 1 cloud but that is where it at least survives as a SaaS+ vendor hopefully long enough to make a dent on infra
The important part here is "Oracle has spred itself too thin".
This is not an accident that has just occurred only with OCI, this is a way of life at Oracle.
It comes from layers and layers of "yes-men" management. As soon as the top id--t says something new, the management below him drop everything they are doing and jump on the next thing to gain favor with the id--ts above him.
EVERYTHING is spread too thin. It's because the management can't talk up the management chain to state what the requirements are to succeed at anything being developed. They are all afraid of the guy above them.... and they all hate the guy above them at the same time.
This is not just OCI, this has been done over and over and over again. Attention is placed intensely on specific things for very short periods of time. OCI is over, just like everything else. OCI was big for a bit, but now we hear there will be no real Oracle cloud, just apps to run on other clouds.
Eventually, the apps talking point will fall through also. No one knows what they are doing. Oracle does not develop anything in house, the management doesn't know how to do that. They only know how to kiss a-- and seek people they can blame for their failures.
There isn't anything else. OCI was doomed to be treated just like everything else. I expect that next we will see top level people in OCI removed as the whole thing is slowly defunded bit by bit.
OCI is fine. Oracle has spread itself too thin. Getting rid of OCI-C org under OCI should have been much earlier. Oracle should focus in Fusion SaaS+integration and infra+db. Might not be tier 1 cloud but that is where it at least survives as a SaaS+ vendor hopefully long enough to make a dent on infra
Well, I knew oracle and OCI were a total mess, didn’t quite realize that there was no strategy and no leadership - not in the least surprised though. LE, SC ad Turd could care less about technology and products, they’re on their last gasps and just need the stock to stay up for a little longer, after that it “apres moi le deluge” ie the end
no need to post anything on layoffs, great people will come, Oci has great reputation.
Welcome to the big red O - yep, it’s an unmitigated mess of asskissing and s---ing up and incompetent people ending up in charge. All goes back to the great leader - LE - who has never believed in good management practices, always believed that it’s all about him and these days quite frankly could not care less about what happens to oracle as long as SC props up the stock with multi-billion share buybacks so LE doesn’t get margin calls on his oracle shares collateral for personal loans. In other words, oracle is dead, dead, dead.
I was told some people in OCI are true startup experience folks like one I heard came from running Beer brewing company to OCI partner support.
Yes I am part of Partner team land laid off along with entire my team
I don't think it's unusual for a company to move people around to lay off specific areas or teams, and keep the other people out of the way.
I think it's also not unusual to try to keep the manager's buddies around for later.
Good guys are laid off bad guys are staying in company unfortunate
I think this is true, at least I know someone that I thought should not have been laid off.