How does Oracle do layoffs? When does it start usually? As soon as people get into the office or sometime later in the day? I'm just wondering when will we finally know if today was just about a rumor gone wild or not. I truly hope this does not drag... — read more 

After reading countless posts, I have surmised that Oracle culture is not modeled for people who are driven by technology and innovation and the desire for excellence (Grade A). These good people are shown the door or leave on their own soon after... — read more 

This is always the most exciting time of the year for me. Can't wait to see what happens! It's like Survivor but with real stakes. If I survive, I want to see what improvements the new FY brings. If I don't survive, I am excited to see what's In... — read more 

I realized that stressing over possible layoffs has become dangerous to my health. My blood pressure is through the roof right now. The fact that I barely got any sleep is certainly not helping. The sooner this gets done, the better for all of us... — read more 

It looks like inside sales is growing and outside sales may see some good people leave in Q1 due to lousy bonus plans, but not massive layoffs like a lot of people predicted would inevitably happen at the end of Q4. There is some realignment though... — read more 

Then post it on Dropbox or some such. We can compare scripts with the ES con-call mass layoff of 9/1/17.

I'm willing to bet that tomorrow will come and go without any major layoffs at Oracle. I just feel sorry for the people who got all worried and anxious when we have no indication that May 31 rumors are anything but exactly that, rumors. Save your... — read more 

Overheard some colleagues mentioning that folks in the UK will get the axe tomorrow. Being tomorrow is the last day of the fiscal year, I wouldn't be surprised.

Based in EMEA, we're gathering employee concerns world wide. Follow us here https://twitter.com/OracleCfdt This sales target processing has been implemented for years within Oracle and other companies (http://insidespin.com/sales-compensation.php)... — read more 

Oracle sometimes uses high-pressure sales tactics to sell its cloud IaaS offerings, including software audits or threatening to dramatically raise the cost of database licenses if the customer chooses another cloud provider. Customers should be... — read more 

Whats with all the rumors about today - You would think with results and analyst views like this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/gartner_2018_magic_quadrant_for_infrastructure_as_a_service/ That Oracle would be investing like mad to move... — read more 

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/gartner-reveals-one-big-reason-oracles-cloud-hasnt-caught-on/ A few interesting excerpts: "Yet, despite Oracle's longstanding database dominance, OCI "has limited enterprise customer traction," Gartner noted. The... — read more 

Now THIS is rich...MH rhapsodizing on LinkedIn about the virtues of new grads (i.e., millennials) and doing his darndest to tell them why they should come work at ORCL. Read between the lines and you’ll have a very entertaining read indeed. He did... — read more 

There were predictions of massive layoffs that would kick off warn, but those folks have backed down and will soon be issuing a new date for the BIG RIF. Does anyone have any inside information as to what, if anything, is in store for this Thursday... — read more 

Looks like about 100 people were let go this past week. That brings the YTD FY18 total to 9,000, and the total since 6/1/2016 to 19,000. Big week coming up, be well all!

Managed to find this article mentioned in another thread without paywall blocking it and I thought other people would like to read it as well. It's well worth a few minutes of your time... — read more 

Does anyone know who are Oracle's top hardware clients? Who buys the most servers from them?

I left oracle 2 years ago, before being laid off. I was BDE Engineer and was knowing very well the DB products, with lots of contacts with Dev team. I was hired by a company who knew me and also knew about my base dev contacts. Our csts know me very... — read more 

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/oracles-aggressive-sales-tactics-are-backfiring-with-customers Oddly enough, Oracle customers don't like being threatened and treated list sh-- - particularly when they have a choice.

https://www.forbes.com/best-employers/list/

We might get some layoffs, as we have been getting for the past few weeks and months, but we have never had a huge layoff without any indication beforehand. If there was going to be a huge layoffs, we would have known something about it by now... — read more 

Will this be the BIG one that folks on this board have been predicting, or simply another small RIF of the deadwood. Does anyone have any inside information on what is coming up next Thursday? Also, what locations and divisions will be hit?

Lots of commentary about who posts here. Clearly there are HR trolls... I'm sad for them actually, as they are likely as despicable as certain leaders of the co. Knowing how associates are treated... and yet, they still come to work in that role... — read more 

The way things have been going lately, we might need the unofficial official layoff report daily instead of weekly. Do we know how many were laid off yesterday total? I find it really funny that somebody recently posted that layoffs at Oracle were... — read more 

https://www.oracle.com/startup/tx/index.html What is this Oracle startup cloud accelerator program? Is this just BS?

Entire CSM renewals team is out on streets in APAC. Expect 30-40% head count reduction across the board in APAC... Bloodbath everywhere.

I am waiting to see what this quarter's results will be. Any hints on what you think will happen there?

New article from Forbes. Kinda long but worth reading. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2018/05/21/oracles-strong-arm-cloud-tactics-the-2018-model/#2655abb724af

So, it looks like we are losing customers to aggressive sales tactics. Who could have imagined that would happen (except pretty much everybody, of course.)... — read more 

It seems like main focus of this forum is on Sales and hardware RIFs.. However-- there are 100s of idle employees in delivery/consulting for months now.. who would have thought in Q4 Oracle allows that.. These people have dated skills that nobody... — read more 

The end of May will come and go and NONE of the doom and gloom predicted by the malcontents on this board will come to pass. They will post some silly excuse as to why there was no massive layoff, and will immediately predict that the new date for... — read more 

So clearly there were layoffs this past week in multiple locations and multiple groups. Of course, no word from oracle how many. My best guess is 150. That would bring the TYD for FY18 to 8,900, and since 6/1/2016 to 18,900. Good luck all in advance... — read more 

What’s your sense of audit activity and forced cloud deals coming on the heels of audits last quarter or two? Up, down, same ?

"The labor union had met with the company more than 10 times since last December, but couldn't reach an agreement," said Kim Chul-soo, leader of Oracle Korea's labor union. "We conducted a strike vote and decided to call the walkout after 96 percent... — read more 

Good luck to those in the firing lines. Hopefully it's not as bad as I am hearing it will be. Don't be stressed because it's out of your control. The decisions have mostly been made. The best thing you can do is start looking for your next career... — read more 

I see comments about layoffs, is this layoff above certain designation or they just need a headcount cut.

I'm rather new to Oracle and I'm not really sure how layoffs are done here. Is everybody notified on the same day or does it spill over into the following day or two? I really, really need this job right now, so not being sure is taking its toll on... — read more 

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180515005564/en/Verizon-Selects-AWS-Preferred-Public-Cloud-Provider This is a huge loss. They are going to see less revs from VZ as they move away from Oracle tech including the DB. What about AT&T? What about... — read more 

Anyone impacted in the UK yet?