I had offers from lots of places but Oracle is the soul company with an ability to do on-prem cloud way more than any other company. On-prem cloud is the future of tech once the external cloud is no more and no other company can match Oracle's... — read more 

A: Tennis. And, he needed a friend, so he bought himself one.

The wheels finally came off the Oracle bus. The attrition of top talent reached a tipping point globally. A futile record long strike has not made a difference for Oracle Korea. http://www.theinvestor.co.kr/view.php?ud=20180710000573 The union claims... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/25/oracles_cloudy_cash_dash_could_fall_flat_insiders_warn/

Can someone explain what’s going on in Success? I heard it’s a paid service and free is just Care team? So we are making customer pay for Success now? That seems troubling.

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-be-a-software-engineer-at-NeXT-Did-workers-interact-with-Steve-Jobs/answer/Paul-King-2

One is for sure, it’s not going to be oracle getting to $1Tr market cap, not 1st, or 2nd, or 3rd, or ever. You’re a loser LE! Eat your heart out!

I see several people talking about companies that are willing to employ people over 50 and pay them appropriately for their experience and I keep wondering what these mythical companies are? I certainly haven't been able to find one and trust me when... — read more 

Saying youre the 5th largest cloud is like saying youre the 5th largest fast food restaurant. Its not so much as an accomplishment as a plaintive cry of desperation. No one is proud of working at Stuckeys on Route 28 in rural Tennessee. They do it... — read more 

A former colleague recommended me to a reporter who is doing an article about the corruption of businesses today. I spoke with her about what I witnessed during my tenure. Age discrimination, unethical sales, inaccurate financial reporting, etc. We... — read more 

Looks like about 150 people got laid off this week, including in cloud. That brings the total number of people laid off since 6/1/2016 to 19,595. Get out ASAP, there is no future at oracle!

With oracle’s stock going nowhere while competition MSFT, AWS doing great I have a simple question: what value are the two CEOs adding? Is there the possibility that their contributions could be negative, even before you take into account their... — read more 

The thing to realize is that the culture is going to go very quickly from bad to worse. As the cloud numbers don't improve, the layoffs will continue. Each group will be working to make sure someone else is laid off, not them. And within each group a... — read more 

We have all heard they have us ranked. Spreadsheets galore and now secondary ones too. Feel free to name your department and location and rank your highest or lowest. Just be descriptive which one you are ranking. Feel free to call out the best of... — read more 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/over-40-interviewing-have-things-happened-you-jo-weech Unfortunately this is happening here at Oracle. I was interviewing for spots on my team and wanted at least one person with seniority among all the college... — read more 

MSFT at an all time high; oracle not so much. Could it be than one competent ceo is a heck of a lot better than 3 incompetent stooges and 2 overpaid incompetent CEOs? Just asking!

The thing to realize is that the culture is going to go very quickly from bad to worse. As the cloud numbers don't improve, the layoffs will continue. Each group will be working to make sure someone else is laid off, not them. And within each group a... — read more 

We can be proud of this fact.

Anybody noticed how many of seasoned employees are leaving Oracle on their own lately? I think everybody realized there is no future here for anybody in their fifties, so they are taking a proactive approach to it. I am just wondering how Oracle will... — read more 

Oracle Data Cloud laid off more than 100 on Monday 7/16 including folks from Moat. Complete new org structure.

Hoping to get some insight. Feel like a noodge applying for stuff that is just fluff disguised as a company trying to look like it is still relevant. Technical Analyst 1-Support Oracle • Burlington, MA

Lovely email the workers got in EMEA. Comes from EWC, European Workers Council. In it, workers show their concern about Cloud "seeding", its impact into the traditional business and into not being any longer capable of telling real business from... — read more 

If you get fired do you get severance?

Looks like MSFT just kicked oracle’s butt in the cloud. Sends a clear message: buy MSFT; sell Oracle!

https://www.fool.com/amp/investing/2018/07/19/better-buy-cisco-systems-inc-vs-oracle-corporation.aspx

The thing to realize is that the culture is going to go very quickly from bad to worse. As the cloud numbers don't improve, the layoffs will continue. Each group will be working to make sure someone else is laid off, not them. And within each group a... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-expands-challenger-series-chicago-150000910.html?.tsrc=applewf Seriously...so “metro”. Is the stock going up because of tennis sponsorship?

Give it a go. What did you like or hate? What was truth and what was lies. If you were to grade them how did they do?

So what’s HD going to do now that his team is getting decimated - moved to the HUBs?

Can someone confirm?

HD -- layoffs in NA Enterprise Architecture team? I heard a a couple long-time directors and managers in HD's EA are looking for new opportunities. What's going on there?

They laid people off here in the Colorado Springs office. Not a peep anywhere and nothing else about it. Just sweep it under the rug. Do you mind saying when did this happen and how many people were affected? It's true that there has been no peep... — read more 

Looks like oracle laid off another 20 or so people this past week, bringing the total laid off since 6/1-2016 to 19,465. Good luck all!

Have you lost your job due to offshoring? If yes, where did your job go? How's that offshoring move working for Oracle right now?

Management person whom I trust shared that implementation success teams are next on block. Hubs would replace most of the field implementation success roles. This change would happen accross APAC first followed by EMEA by end of Q2

Latest and greatest scoop. Ppl refusing Oracle offers-market watchers have confirmed that marquee(key) account director role offers of 2+Cr were turned down last week.

2 Sr director of CSM org were laid off today from India.

I am NA ECA covering 3 large enterprise accounts and been pretty successful with them. Being here for a long time (10+ years), I have heard my share of rumors and usually do not panic. I was told today, though, by someone I totally trust in... — read more 

Just found this. Considering that Oracle is a master in avoiding WARN, this is a handy guide (adviser) to help see how the Federal WARN Act applies to any company, Oracle included. https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/warn.htm If this was previously posted... — read more 

New teams announced today. Are you happy with your new team, manager and product? It took so long to finally announce, that several of us are in final rounds of interviews. If I stay, at least I don’t have the same manager. He was drama!