Microsoft about to clobber legacy sales groups as the pivot to cloud sales - something from LEs playbook: https://www.thelayoff.com/t/OPbQCak or @OPbQCak

whoever you talk to they say: " nobody knows, even senior managers and good friends up in the chain say there is no news as far as what is happening" at the same time everyone is preparing to exit, people are packing and saying goodbyes even managers... — read more 

Incase you did not notice the US based engineered poc team has been gone for two years now. I have a friend in HW presales who is training a guy from India who dials in to customer meetings. The guy from india knows how to tell the customer to run an... — read more 

They don't. As it seems, Oracle is only one in a sea of companies that are trying to boost their bottom line quickly for the quarterly results, without considering long-term repercussions. I know, shocking... — read more 

Someone correct me if I am wrong. But I am not convinced by people's interpretation of WARN here. I found two versions of WARN by googling. One from federal and the other from state California. Federal: Plant closings involving 50 or more employees... — read more 

Why does Oracle switch your health coverage to COBRA immediately upon laying you off and pay it for 30 days rather than just continue your current coverage for 30 days, then start COBRA? As a recently laid off employee, I find that I have lost access... — read more 

vishal sikka quit as Infosys CEO . He is a strong candidate to join Oracle. 1) He gave keynote at Oracle Openworld in 2015 and 2016 ( just before Larry's Keynote) 2) Has Experience at SAP ( one of Oracle's main competitor) 3) Stronger Technical... — read more 

My understanding is that you must sign document that says you won't sue Oracle to get your package. Is anyone away of cases where employees have not signed and negotiated a better deal? I'm sure anyone who has, must also have signed some type of... — read more 

The June 1 layoffs are about to be repeated, the 90 warn period will be up September 1. Rumor has it the sales layoff will impact the same number of people as the June 1 layoff in sales. Hardware is also going to get hit, but its going to be limited... — read more 

I know that there is a 60 day buffer to find other jobs. Does the 60 day period start on the day of layoff itself.

The major hardware groups left are the SPARC teams in SCA and BUR, as well as the x86 teams in BUR and SCA. With the cancellation of SPARC M9, there is no road map for SPARC. The impact on x86 is less certain. The question with x86 is whether Oracle... — read more 

Hey, MH, when are you planning to publicly announced the forthcoming layoffs? When do you propose to announce what oracle's HW offering is going to be going forward? Date(s), numbers of people impacted, locations, that kind of stuff

Call up your local TV news channel. Call your local newspaper.

Even hapless IBM CEO GR had something to say about recent events, in effect t criticizing POTUS, not so our $C, just not her thing to speak up like a leader and concerned citizen. Too busy counting her $$$.

SK leaving Oracle, MA to be new boss. Be ready for further updates

I believe the current package provides for 1 week per year of service capped at 26 weeks. Can Oracle change these terms without notice?

Can someone share what the difference is between an Oracle sales consultant vs solutions consultant?

Much of the layoff discussion here is focused on SPARC/Solaris. How likely is the Intel system group going to be impacted? Will this area be spared? Are they considered a key part of the cloud strategy at Oracle?

If you want you know if you will be laid off on any given day, check you vacation balance when you arrive in the office... If your vacation balance has mysteriously been zeroed out that means they cut your final severance check which includes your... — read more 

I'm an engineer in ME and have been thinking about the timing of the currently speculated events. Why kill off HW at this specific moment? The first sign was of course canceling Exadata SL and LoS which was really strange as they had really doubled... — read more 

Start a fake rumor and wait until it gets confirmed here with great certainty - my point is that at this time the best course of action is to just prepare yourself while finding something to do that keeps you sane - meaning not this site

Is this a 'sign'?

I just got an email from the company asking me to verify contact information to updat "tax and payroll" is this my hint about my impending layoff?

Should we be nervous oracle just asked many of us to update our home and work locations?

Well since we dwelling in rumors ... here is what I have heard: Aug 24 is the next doomsday. Some say it will be HW only, others say Solaris will also get whack. New colleges grads, especially in SCA, are going to let go, the reason being that given... — read more 

When assessing whether there will be a sufficient number of employees suffering an employment loss to trigger WARN, an employer must be cognizant of WARN’s 90-day aggregation rule. Under this rule, separate layoffs during a 90-day period at a single... — read more 

What are you guys hearing recently?

Does anyone use Blind App - they claim to have 2500 users from Oracle registered sharing information - I am thinking about switching from TheLayoff.com to that app if it is worth vile? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance...

There will be a substantial reduction in Colorado hardware on 8/24. Groups will be cut between 50% and 100%. Many brave managers have informed their impacted people already.

People in HW are totally in the dark . They have no idea what is happening . You go to work in the morning not knowing if it's your last day there . Since when O become the new apple as far as keeping things confidential. What is all this secretive... — read more 

No reported major layoffs this week. Total for FY18 remains at 4,500; total since 6/1/2016 remains at14,500. More HW layoffs expected in the next week or two. Good luck everybody

Assuming the worst case scenario that HW is closing and the layoffs are imminent. any expectations on "when" ? That would help the people who are preparing for interviews / H1B visas manage their time . Some says: end of (August)/ (Sep 1st) Others... — read more 

(Fictitious disclaimer: Any resemblance between the characters in this post to any persons, living or dead, is a purely a coincidence) ... adding this in in case the layoff rolls over on me and spills my IP address or something. Take this post for... — read more 

How was the rah rah session in Austin yesterday ?

Just got off the phone with an oracle SC in IPAAS / IAAS who is looking to leave Oracle. He is not alone, apparently he has had 9 managers in the past year. He got a call asking him to help train up several newly hired college grads in OD. They were... — read more 

This is where the money is, so it'll be nice if can get a major piece of the pie. http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-most-influential-advertising-company-2017-8

Based on discussions and what we hear from internal sources, HW/sparc is on life support . The question is when they will pull the plug . However, O will announce M8 and they will make a big deal about it . It is a good chip after all . Here are few... — read more 

Attrition is acceptable?