I’m on vacation! Good luck, and Happy Holidays.

Is stressfull ?

If you make it past this day, you should be safe for all of 2023, until it all starts again in January. Meanwhile, if you have a scheduled meeting with your boss tomorrow, good luck my friend.

What does this mean? Just December, or something more?

Micro-management and interference with employees' work Public criticism or humiliation of employees Unpredictable and erratic behavior Emotional manipulation and playing favorites Overemphasis on results at the expense of employee... — read more 

From personal experience Hierarchy- SM > 2 , 3 executive VP > GVP > VP > May be another VP > Snr Director > Director > Group Manager > Senior Manager > Manager > 'You are somewhere here' Any one above you would rarely work. Many of them would not... — read more 

Just a quick 5 min zoom and a very long career is over. Even after serving my entire career, running a very large team, building software, minting $100+ Million in YOY revenue and I still could not afford a house. Stuck with legacy technology... — read more 

I was notified 2 weeks ago (by my manager's manager) that I was impacted by the most recent layoffs in the GBUs. Since then, I haven't heard a single thing from my manager or any of my team members. It's like I suddenly stopped existing. My manager... — read more 

Oracle market share dropped from 36% to 16% of the total database Market between 2017 and today. Oracle didn't lose customers, it just didn't catch any of the new cloud customers. Oracle cloud represents a laughable 1.6% of the total cloud market. ... — read more 

Today morning in the US multitude of people (including whole teams with Directors) in CX SaaS were laid off. They got 12 min meetings in the morning and were let go on the spot. Got meeting group meeting scheduled today, so may be we survived and... — read more 

"Flattening of the Org" rumor has it.....

Heard some rumors here and there. Any truth to it ?

My manager asked me to share the key works that i have done in past 6 months. Wondering why he is asking for that. Is that for mid year review or anything bad. I feel I am key member of our team, but that doesn’t matter to higher management. — read more 

Numerous people across the GBUs RIF'd today. Good people. Oracle - you win at the holidays! Come work for Oracle, you too might just get RIF'd at the holidays.

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election

Hi I received an offer to work at OCI as TPM. What is your opinion? Is it too risky? Is there work-life balance ? Thank you!

No regard for employees = no regard for the employees. You can get rid of us in a day we can do the same. No notice.

I was at the gym and listening to some voicemails from a former colleague at another company griping about customers contacting her cause they couldn't get through the onboarding material. I was brought back to my 2nd to last Oracle manager who... — read more 

Through acquisitions we have more employees today than ever before, but it makes me wonder if there are more ex Oracle than current employees. Between layoffs, folks finding new jobs, deaths and retirement, there must be hundreds of thousands of ex... — read more 

How many were laid off in total? I'm hearing very different numbers from different sources. Is there any way to know which one is correct?

I'm hoping we're done with layoffs at least for the year. I haven't been here long so I'm not sure if Oracle is known for layoffs during the holiday season, but I'm going to hope the answer is no. Please correct me if I'm wrong since I'd rather be... — read more 

How many other companies actually do “dry promotions” this consistently? I’m seeing a lot of reports on this on Glassdoor with this company. This is the most ridiculous thing ever, no wonder the salaries are so messed up with existing employees... — read more 

Looks like yesterday was not an isolated incident.

OCI layoffs

I haven't heard anything about layoffs, and the news usually spreads like wildfire. If it happened, then it must have been really small in scope.

Seems like a lot of BUs were impacted but I don't know the total number of people. Sorry for those who were let go, I hope you find somewhere better soon.

This time last year my Manager and two from my team were let go! Yes this can be scary. Boo!

During my extensive tenure as a m1 or higher at Oracle, I consistently strived to uphold ethical standards. However, this proved challenging, particularly within the context of company acquisitions. The organization exhibited an excessive top-heavy... — read more 

How is the support organization doing these days? I have an acquaintance who says things have gotten extremely negative and toxic there with leadership in the past few months.

If you do find yourself laid off this month, take comfort in the possibility that you could see an income boost as a car wash manager. Better benefits too. #noFocals

Over the next couple of weeks layoffs will happen in the apps development org under SM. in both north america and emea.

For next year as well.. good luck.

Stock dropped 6.5% today following the AI Executive Forum in Redwood Shores - I guess you would be safe to say it wasn't that impressive. Here we go again getting into an arena filled with every 2 bit player on the globe - everybody is racing to... — read more 

Layoffs happened yesterday. Know of a few people but still don’t know why. So sh-t

No raises, no chance of advancement, and no support from the products we are supporting. Managers are incompetent. Directors are worse. VPs and above are raking it in while we wallow in the mud. New hires straight out of college are getting RSUs... — read more 

Getting ready for November layoffs.

I have to admit, I posted a story on here about another company and I added a very nice ending to it. In actual fact, the story does not end happily and I would like to tell you more about what happened. The story comes to me from another developer... — read more