Well when you’ve had 3 VPs in 9 months that can’t seem to get past the “we didn’t have to do this at salesforce” you know the wrong people were hired to bring about positive changes. These cuts should’ve come from the top not the worker bees. Why do... — read more
“Performance review”
Word on the street is they are trying to get rid of people via impossible performance reviews. Reviews were initiated today. Start looking for jobs Oracle is going down
27-Jan Update from The Ax-Man
The Ax-Man here, coming to you with the latest info, news and insight with an objective and factual point of view. This week are the big round of management meetings at HQ. Many of these are happening Tuesday and Wednesday, others throughout... — read more
Future of Sales
Back in 2012, Mark Hurd spearheaded a corporate restructuring program to reduce the number of Oracle account contacts. In the past, customers had to deal with one sales rep for each of Oracle’s pillars: database, middleware, applications, engineered... — read more
Digging deeper into Oracles cloud strategy
This really belongs at the top of a thread: This! https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Beyond-the-database-Digging-deeper-into-Oracles-cloud-strategy-and-its-bid-to-conquer-AWS is telling. River Island CIO Doug Gardner told Computer... — read more
How many people work at Oracle?
What's your guess on how many employees the company will have before the end of the year? How about the overall headcount? And headcount at Redwood City?
Unofficial official layoff report 1/26/2020
No major layoffs this past week, but looks like last week’s layoff was closer to a 1,000 than the 500 reported Therefore revising the total. Total number of people laid off since 6/1/2016 is therefore 26,276. Keep looking folks, best of luck!
Cuts are spreading into the startup space
Most of the cuts are in the Bay Area: WeWork Layoffs (2,000) 23andMe cut 16% or 100 people Quora reduced an undisclosed number Mozilla cut 70 people this month Playful Studios big cut staff just this week Also cutting: Zume... — read more
DJ has run Oracle into the ground. No names, just initials.
Billions and probably tens of billions squandered already on a late arriving, over budget, weak also-ran cloud infrastructure — buggy and on leased data centers not even owned by Oracle. Customer enthusiasm is too low to measure. Zero management... — read more
Update from The Ax-Man
The Ax-Man here, updating you folks with latest information. Next week (week of Jan 27) there will be major and numerous high-level meetings happening at Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores. Execs from all several major business units and top... — read more
Can't post anything positive here or it will be deleted.
Deleted a positive post on Oracle. WTF is wrong with you people here.
Unofficial official layoff report 1/20/2020
Looks like about 500 people were laid off late last week, including BD and cloud success managers, etc. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 25,776. It never ends! Keep looking aggressively if you don’t want to be next!
NetSuite TV Ads
Notice that the TV ads for Netsuite are all "Netsuite" and the word Oracle only gets on screen small at end. Are they spinning off Netsuite? Whatva lolz. LE sells it to Oracle, makes 4.5 billion, then sells it to keep stock up? Plus he... — read more
There you go on Salaries
I am just gonna leave this salary info here Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers https://huyenchip.com/2020/01/18/tech-workers-19k-compensation-details.html
MH passed away 90 days ago but his legacy lives on
What we are witnessing today at Oracle is a direct result of nearly a decade of tenure for MH in his leadership role. LE has been out of touch with his company as he gave full trust and control to MH and SC. Both of them focused on financial... — read more
Stealth layoffs continue
Checked Aria: LE had 47013 on Friday, today: 46683 SF had 89612 on Friday, today: 89459 Granted, some left voluntarily. And no, I'm not from Oracle HR you dumb****!
Possible FALSE posts on this board by Oracle Human Resources
Is it possible that many of these very well written posts telling us why everyone should leave Oracle ASAP possibly be written by someone in Oracle Human Resources so as to get as many of us to quit on our own and thereby avoid the bad PR (both... — read more
What’s Coming Ahead
After getting back from the Holiday break and looking at mid-quarter numbers and run-rate being nowhere NEAR projections, Oracle leadership was in a state of shock. Previous internal management plans to reduce headcount and optimize the size of... — read more
More of the same....
Another dumb idea from above. It's NOT the software. It can't be. If that's the problem, then there is nothing that can be done. So we'll hire a new Chief Marketing Officer. We just aren't selling it right, yeah, yeah, that's the... — read more
oracle layoff austin tx jan 17, 2020
no media coverage on this one. i think at this point nobody cares about job cuts here, it's so frequent - it's almost a normal order of business
OCI related - consulting roles.
My team got hit bad. Anybody in consulting labeled OCI is gone. And leaves regular consultants who are useless here. I know US, Canada in a similar boat. OCI is underperforming revenue wise. Whackings ain’t gonna fix it - leadership will. — read more
anyone using "FOLLOW" feature they added to each thread on this site?
not sure how that works without login, but wanted to see if anyone finds it any useful...
Rumor has it
If you look in the mirror and say SAFRA SAFRA SAFRA she will actually appear behind you and VIOLENTLY RIF YOU WITH HER SPREADSHEET REDUCTION! Stay safe people. Pray to whatever you believe in. Keep your head down and never, ever, look at the... — read more
oracle and facebook team up for mega cloud
ORCL passed its 50 and 200 days moving average, which means technically it gives a BUY signal.
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Do yourself a favor. Go to your family or a mirror and decide on one of the other for this year. 1) either I am leaving Oracle 2) I am staying for better or worse. That is it. either way, you are not making a wrong decision. the worst if... — read more
Cloud Renewals Today
I was let go today. I'll spare you details, it follow the cookie cutter formula described on this site over and over again. There was more than a dozen people axed today, not in mgmt and I do not have an exact number.
Any insight to which orgs will be hit?
It seems that OCI is gonna get hit, CX sales were hit today. Does anyone know of SC’s views on the business development (BD/BDC) and Oracle Digital (OD) orgs and if they’re safe or not?
Oracle Workforce Reductio Today
Not sure how many... But was told I have until end of month to find new job internally or will be terminated.
Big RIF expected in Spain when moving to the new Madrid office.
Business is disastrous, morale below minimums. A move to a much smaller office in Madrid will be leveraged to execute a big RIF. Stay tuned.
When can we expect layoffs to start?
Not much info available right now... Which could be considered both good and bad news...
SC implements travel ban
Turns out the rumors are true. Oracle is implementing a cost-cutting travel ban. No customer facing travel. No overnight travel. For customer facing activity, they want to send the least amount of people possible so no more 8 people showing up for a... — read more
Unofficial official layoff report 1/12/2020
No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains 25,276. More cost cuts, ie layoffs, coming down the pike - keep looking aggressively to get out. not a good trajectory.
Oracle down the drain
This post has 16 up-votes, can't be that wrong.... I have deep insight into what is happening with OCI from a business standpoint. And I can tell you that it is not only the largest s— of dollars in the company, but OCI is running at an EXTREME... — read more
Comment about OCI Support
There was a post "Yes, breaking records all right. Record for the most unsolved Sev1 SRs, record for the most SRs that go past SLAs, record for the most escalation, record for the most downtime, etc etc. I could go on and on..." Please, go on. Due... — read more
Entering the Death Star ?
Has oracle, finally, reached the point of the death spiral where cost cuts lead to declining revenues, lead to more cost cuts, which lead to further revenue declines .... as Infinitum until it implodes on itself? The signs aren’t good ...
Happy that Trolls are Gone !
Not a single sign of Dumperman or his alter ego trolls in more than a week. Information of verifiable quality is starting to be posted here again. Posts are not having to be pruned by the moderators. Oracle HR is no longer posting here... — read more
I want to use ORACLE DBMS for my new project
Said no one ever.
Unscheduled meeting
My extended team has meeting this afternoon. It was called on the fly. No details why.
Oracle Sales Dramatically Down & Tanking!
Sales so far this quarter have been dramatically down. This is another impetus for the dramatic cutting of budgets and hiring freeze. The current run rate of sales and pipeline is way behind projections as the company goes into the second half of... — read more