Like Marketing yesterday. For as long as COVID-19 is disrupting the economy, it's giving companies a perfect excuse to lay off as many people as they want whenever they want. Not as if somebody is going to question the need for it, because, you know... — read more 

I work in Marketing at Oracle and we just had a big RIF yesterday, not sure about other departments. Why did it happen? We do have some new executives in Marketing, was it deliberate to replace low performers or forceful because of company not doing... — read more 

I’m changing jobs and wondering about what to do to keep the same cell number I have. I know phone is paid by employees but plan is still under Oracle.

I alwys want to work for Oracle and Larry but don't know how to get a job there. What can I do to get a job with Larry?

No transparency and CEs are taking a big hit with their pay.

your org or department is not conducting performance reviews, that's an indicator that layoffs are coming. Brush up your resumes and apply to other companies immediately. You are more marketable when employed than unemployed. Good luck... — read more 

Left Oracle early in the year. Now interviewing data and cloud people left and right, and a consistent theme is that companies are migrating off of Oracle databases to Azure or AWS services (Google who? Sorry, Kurian). We did interview ONE guy who... — read more 

I remember when Oracle was a relevant cutting edge technology corporation. That was 10 years ago. Today after a decade of cost cutting and replacing veteran sales and technical people with college grads, Oracle only survives on its large support... — read more 

Are the October RIFs still scheduled for Oct/next week?

to burst Anyone else think that the pressure is building?

Oracle’s Most Expensive Cloud Sale Yet Software company looks to TikTok to cement its cloud reputation, but politics muddles story Spending money to make money is a long established game in the cloud. Oracle’s deal with TikTok takes that to... — read more 

Does Oracle share anything else besides title, hire/termination date? Do they share people you managed etc?

It is so high, in fact, that they spend their time here on layoffs.com instead of selling. LOL

I know India employees got one month for every year of service plus about 4 months so it seemed like a relatively generous package (though at an awful time). Since I'm in the US, I'm curious as to what US employees got as their package?

Source Link below (cloudwars): Autonomous Database. Ellison has made the former star of the show—Autonomous Database—now an appendage of OCI, which is the new center of the Oracle universe Cloud@Customer. OCI is now at the heart... — read more 

In the end, it will be SC and LE left, like cowboys staring at each other to make the final layoff...

Here are some of Oracle's recent hires in Florida based on 31 approved visas for the state and how much they're paid: Software developer: $129,000 to $212,000 Master principal sales consultant: $122,000 to $199,000 Applications... — read more 

My neighbor's kid is a big user of Tik Tok and thought it was cool I worked for Oracle. Apparently this deal has made Oracle trendy with the Tik Tok user base and has generated a renewed interest in the company. I've had another person ask me about... — read more 

Anybody else feels like this whole TikTok thing has been blown out of proportion and that there is really very little to earn from this deal? Quite the opposite? Kind of reminds me of Verizon and Tumblr... Just google it if you don't know what I'm... — read more 

and put it out of its misery.

Oracle Analytics is growing and hiring aggressively every month. If you are a top notch developer in another doom and gloom department in Oracle, come and join this dynamic and growing team. We have added scores of people in last two quarters.

https://cloudwars.co/oracle/oracle-ceo-safra-catz-surge-to-oracle-cloud-has-begun/

My friend got laid off there after a long stint there....ACS is a toxic environment with favoritism and tribalism all over the place. Maybe its all of Oracle..if your director likes you are good, otherwise watch out. Great place for women managers... — read more 

What's the next thing we can try to buy and either fail or succeed and then destroy it?

So I admit it. I s—. I have been at Oracle almost 10 yrs. it was good at first, but about 5 years ago we took on a half hearted cloud strategy. Each year after that things got progressively worse. The very best people started to leave then. Some... — read more 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-drops-out-of-bidding-for-tiktoks-u-s-operations-11600039821

Sounds like an uptick in the HW side of the business. Wonder if Oracle will start to hire people back to update SPARC given the market opportunity. Oracle Cloud sounds ready to explode.

The OCS Delivery headcount just got re-org'd from AM's OCS team to the Cloud Engineering team. Sounds like they're going to be supporting free App migration services with every lift & shift deal. AM now only has the OCS Sales function, but he... — read more 

I have heard a couple of rumors that hundreds of people will be layoff in old OMCS (OCI). it was suppose to be happen in march already but delay and put into quaters (next part is scheduled next week). Nobody cares of projects seems so and load... — read more 

With a simple magic touch, Oracle can turn a loyal, but unstructured gathering of SC, and turn them, almost overnight, into Cloud Engineers. Just change their title! And not to stop there, with anothet simple word, convert them to make them the... — read more 

Good earnings at the cost of many Cloud Engineers? CEs are struggling due to bad Q4 bonus and discouragement of overtime. That’s a huge loss of income.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/options-traders-bet-oracle-could-hit-new-highs-when-reports-earnings.html

Can somebody please explain to me how is it that attrition is as bad as it's ever been (and it's been really bad for a few years now) in the middle of a freaking pandemic? Where are all those people going to? Is there a secret employer I don't know... — read more 

hiring people after each RIF? Is this the way to scare employee? If you are good enough or dumb enough, stay. Otherwise, leave?

How much rise you got in July?