Looks like Oracle's strategy is to replace Cloud SCs and CSMs with ECAs. Or at least it seems there are suddenly a lot of folks with the ECA title in Aria (looked under Hamidou's org. as an example). What is the thinking here? Is this just a... — read more 

You're manager should have already given you a heads up, if not and you're in systems or HW, the plan is to lay you off by months end. If you worked for JF, you're part of staggered layoffs for the next month plus, start applying elsewhere. Even if... — read more 

Oracle Lay'ed off my entire team in June, and moved our jobs to a low cost center in Romania. Safra Catz is on the Trump transition team, but Oracle is still out sourcing US jobs behind the scenes.

https://thefly.com/landingPageNews.php?id=2593104&headline=ORCL-Oracle-launches-two-new-realtime-banking-solutions https://thefly.com/landingPageNews.php?id=2593106&headline=ORCL-Oracle-releases-Banking-Payments-solution-worldwide Interesting choice... — read more 

Oracle offers graduates of top CS programs competitive packages and even slightly better than average packages. Yet, relatively few take those offers. One candidate we tried very hard to recruit (MIT grad) said that he heard Oracle was slow... — read more 

A keyword search on the Oracle careers page for either 'Solaris' or 'SPARC' returns over 75 job postings across the US. How can they be laying off Solaris and SPARC engineers and at the same time be hiring?

MH is rumored to be leaving oracle. Massive cuts are broken down by quarter after a post on the layoff.com went viral and he was questioned about it on CNBC. MH called it "fake news" and the layoffs were scheduled by department by quarter to avoid... — read more 

In all of my decades of working in tech, I have never seen layoffs handled as poorly as they were on August 3. 20+ year employee neighbor of mine, this is how it went: manager walks into their office at 11:00, after employee was asked to be in by... — read more 

What is the reason Oracle is not able to attract the top talent in the silicon valley. Is it just compensation, internal politics, reputation of being cheap or something else.

http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2017/08/07/the-5-candidates-most-likely-to-replace-ibm-ceo-rometty/

How many posts here are from Oracle's competition, using an anonymous place to pour gasoline on a small fire to try to scare clients away from Oracle, thus fattening their own pockets? Thoughts?

In view of all the unannounced layoffs and deprioritization of various development efforts, which oracle products, other than DB, can a customer buy without having to fear that they will not be supported / will be terminated going forward? Very... — read more 

Well as we all know the peace would not hold and so we had layoffs this past week again, mostly hardware as oracle has decided to leave the HW business. LYoff this week aboutb 500, that beings FY18 to 4,500 and the total since 6/1/2016 to 14,500... — read more 

Anyone who worked in consulting knows how things work here as it relates to layoffs - when times are good and our consulting pipeline is healthy we tend to hire. There is a bit of a lag here as you cannot hire fast enough and typically it takes a... — read more 

It is not a secret to anyone that oracle has systematically been laying off employees for the last 18 plus months, by now some 15,000. Yet oracle has refused to make any announcements and has spread the layoffs so as to minimize the need for WARN... — read more 

For the past few years, MH has been requiring that NA Sales employees must respond to the annual employee survey. It was mandatory and online. It was executed by a third party firm. The SVPs sent a couple of emails out about the importance of it... — read more 

I have read many posts about Sales Consulting..any insight as the impact on Oracle Consulting (OCS)? the 800 people organization which nobody knows their actual function..!? ( with current high bench ratio )..

JF's org: 20+ year Legacy Sun - here's my experience: Day of layoff - notified via phone by manager (I had a scheduled vacation day) This is your official last day. Benefits end that day, no 30 or 60 day period to find another job. Fed-ex package... — read more 

Had speaks with someone in the know on the HW layoffs. Next round is in September, the list has been compiled and lips are sealed. HW SCs are the main ones impacted with the next round of layoffs. Many field reps will be let go as well. That's the... — read more 

Any info on how much of hardware will survive given M9 is most likely canceled? I'm assuming a small percentage will stay back to do accelerators, but question is how small a team? ASICS have been built in the past with an org of 30 people or less... — read more 

I heard at least a few ECAs or SCs were let go as of July 31st ☹️

Being in a company as it downsizes/restructures is never fun and can lead to a desire to just escape. That is enough reason to look around. However, there are also positive reasons to look at other companies and you should do yourself the favor of... — read more 

Have there been any additional layoffs at Oracle today, or was yesterday literally D-day? Do we have a final number of how many people were let go total? It seems that Oracle is trying really hard to avoid having to send out WARN notices, from what I... — read more 

Rumors are a foot of a year long shift. Here is the plan. This is all runmors, but information is becoming readily available as those in the know leave Oracle and spill the beans. Instead of one massive layoff, the layoffs will be constant through... — read more 

Based on what? Lots of ic4 and 5 got hit. What's your point. You want to just kill us?

Probably the most valuable inside info posted today is that M9 is going to be canceled. Too bad that there are still new features adding, bugs filling and fixing on M9 project. So much money and efforts has been devoted to M9 already. Is there any... — read more 

Based from info I see, this is my conclusion. Oracle bets everything on the cloud business. Based from info I see, this is my conclusion. Oracle bets everything on the cloud business. FS1 is the hardware to use for it. ( internal to provide cloud... — read more 

We have been fired today in Bangalore ZFSSA QA team. In our team, 50% kept for sustaining and other teams are huge it seems. Affected teams are ZFSSA core team (50%), AIE, micro and automation are 80% reduction. Next will be in other regions..all the... — read more 

No reason given for Fowler's exit, no new exec named and no sign of continuous delivery By Chris Williams and Simon Sharwood 2 Aug 2017 at 23:08 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/02/oracle_john_fowler_bails/ Oracle has revealed that John Fowler... — read more 

Which areas were hit and how many people, thanks.

I was not an HR person. Was in OCS for about 5 years during the dot.com days. Saw firsthand how people paid a lot of money for what amounted to nothing of much benefit. I was told that if a salesperson wasn't making $500K then s/he was deemed... — read more 

In various places in the ZFSSA org, marketing and engineering.

Heard that tapes team will last for quite a while. Is this true or just empty assurance? Can someone with inside info share an insight on the future of tapes.

Hearing both types of rumors about M9- canceled and not canceled. If it were canceled, how do they plan to sell M8? Are they not going to announce it at Open World? If it is not canceled, what prompted the decision? Will it go on till end of the year... — read more 

Does anyone know what the Oracle policies/practices are when an employee gives notice that they are leaving the company? Will they pay out vacation hours? Do they make it an immediate dismissal if you are going to a competitor? Does insurance cover... — read more 

From the last few threads, the information is mixed on whether there were any layoffs today in Solaris / ZFS. Folks, please post any you know of? Also, Sparc seems eerily quiet. Are they getting affected this week too?

Study the market, study your competition and get to the point where you are at the top of your game. If you want to stay at Oracle, it will equip you to be in the best position possible to do so. If you are let go or want to leave, you will be ready... — read more 

Even press knows that Solaris is dead, as GITHUB is silent for continuous delivery promise. See: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/02/oracle_john_fowler_bails/ Interestingly, FS1 will not be sold to external customers. Questions are : Is ZFS and... — read more 

Oracle HR acts more like the 1st line of defense for legal. They rarely answer questions that would be standard for any HR department. When I emailed my HR Rep, days before June 30 RIF, I received an email reply notification telling me she was... — read more 

Rumor has it majority of layoffs pushed to September, HR can't get the packages ready in time. Lots of work goes into each round so they pushed back. Don't worry the process is getting streamlined. With any luck things should be faster for the end of... — read more