How much should give for Larry birthday gift? Got collection message is 25usd enough? Or a 1usd a year would be better. Please help.

Surely, Oracle knows where the next round of layoffs in September are going to be? Probably Cerner, maybe Sales, maybe OCI, other places, if I had to guess from my uninformed internal location. So, why is management letting 150k people just... — read more 

Layoffs will continue to target citizens. Offshoring will continue to happen to India. Then those same people will be brought back in L1b in 4-5 years back to USA. Make tough choices once you open your own business and hire locally. Change needs to... — read more 

I don't understand how they think they can pay bottom dollar and expect top performance. It makes no sense. But it seems to be logical to the id--ts in charge.

NA Pre Sales, my Q4 bonus is down over 60% Year over Year. Down well over 100% compared to prior fiscals. they work you to the bone. No raise in 4 years. What are other Q4 like?

This should only make Oracle stock dive more, OpenAI is being sued for hardware technology theft. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets.html

Recently there are lots of news floating around H-1b being mis-used for promotion, hiring, layoff,etc inside Oracle. Here is the press release for reporting these issues and you will get... — read more 

Expect layoffs August 3rd! Any truth to this?

The downgrade reflects rising business risk and weaker cash flow driven by a massive, capital-intensive AI infrastructure buildout and high customer concentration (e.g., OpenAI). The rating outlook remains... — read more 

There will be 9-10% RIF or Performance based layoff and this is mandatory number. Expecting 3500-4000 minimal number. This reduces Oracle's risk of payment of interests by 10%. the 2027 1Q will not have much layoffs and this time frame + revenue... — read more 

From: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/07/03/the-ai-bubble-is-bursting-but-behind-it-hides-an-even-great/ Re: semiconductor drop last week The trigger seems to have been talk of a thousand plagues by the hybrid cloud giant Oracle, which... — read more 

https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-investor-lawsuit-openai-deal The strain inside the AI bo-m’s biggest infrastructure bet has reached a courtroom. Oracle’s own investors are suing, saying the company hid how shaky its $300bn deal with OpenAI really... — read more 

Any one seen the trend ?

I've been through the layoff process and I wanted to share what I learned. I was able to find a new position within a couple months, but I'll be honest, it wasn't because of anything I did at Oracle. The industry is well aware of what's happening at... — read more 

FUBAR

Dear Larry We the employees find your financial stewardship and guidance now lacking. You have installed two incompetent leaders, who do nothing more than to create strife, and one is like so socially awkward it’s embarrassing (we all know who) You... — read more 

In order to protect my investment, I would prefer to see the decision makers replaced, than the workers, who deliver the revenue. I can get into debt myself, I don't need their help. I want them to report revenue!

Now they are a cloud company? HAHAHHAHAHAHHA! Who the heck would trust those momo's with enterprise workloads. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-meta-giving-up-on-cutting-edge-ai-wall-street-is-divided-over-potential-cloud-pivot-7c5ffc5d

My stocks are turning into ashes. What a bad decision it is in name of transition to AI and making employees as scape goats. I never received recognition, money, promotion, perks, hikes. All I was given was a little stock bonus over years. These... — read more 

What will happen in FY27?

You work for the oligarchy. You will deliver. (nothing personal)

Our Free Cash Flow is heavily bleeding at negative $23.7 Billion because management is dumping $55.7 Billion straight into AI data centers. To balance headcount will drop 13% from 162,000 down to 145,000 and slowly reduce near 130K+. You have few... — read more 

by making a major announcement that all Oracle California employees need to relocate on their own to Saint Louis Missouri to keep their jobs. Oracle can lease many empty office buildings in Saint Louis at a much lower lease price than what Oracle is... — read more 

Tracking participants count #general Slack channel in Oracle One workspace, as the fastest available proxy indication of ongoing layoffs. jun01-jun30: 1723 reductions, 1299 additions, 152340 (-424) end count may01-may31: 2271 reductions, 942... — read more 

Of the 21k cuts, what percentage are sales! I'm curious

Oracle is the only major hyperscaler funding its AI buildout with massive debt and deeply negative cash flow (compared to cash-rich peers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google) If backlog conversion stalls or financing terms tighten, the leverage... — read more 

People who take credit for things I did and then getting promoted based on it, managers who keep making false promises but never actually delivering on them, and cowardly managers who never bother to stand up for their people. I know for a fact this... — read more 

As the great Status Quo once sang, "Down, Down, Deeper and Down"

The managers I’ve dealt with always sound condescending, micro managing, and pushing extra hours. Are they trained like this? Cause they su-k

SPACEX was the trigger, we are all in for a world of pain. OpenAI will fall and Oracle will go with it. They cant cut enough heads to make up for the losses, hiding these cuts as "AI innovation" no longer makes sense. ... — read more 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/oracle-layoffs-company-confirms-how-many-employees-received-email-from-oracle-leadership-at-6am-saying-that-we-have-made-the-decision-to-eliminate-your-role-as/articleshow/131930070.cms Glad... — read more 

I joined this industry a decade ago bright-eyed and excited to write code and implement solutions. Now everything is just AI. AI this, AI that. It's utterly soulless. I'm seriously considering going back to college and switching to a different field... — read more 

Larry Ellison quietly gave $45 million to a pro-Trump group—then Oracle landed a starring role in a $500 billion AI buildout https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-amount-of-money-billionaire-larry-ellison-pays-to-be-trumps-friend-revealed/

Anyone else got it? I'm in SF bay area, and the letter has couple job codes for bay area too. It asks me to apply for those. Why does Oracle send out this letter by Fedex? It seems they laid off too many people, and they're desperately looking for... — read more 

Heard there is going to be layoffs? Did it happen? Which departments were impacted, and how many colleagues?

We've been trying to fill a role for months, and we've gotten almost no qualified applicants. It almost feels like qualified people have heard the stories, know what it's like here, and are staying away as a result. We desperately need help, but I... — read more 

I guess, after Romania, someone else gotta be next

Workplace Survivor Syndrome. If everything is a priority nothing is. Delegation Segregation Discrimination. Check the numbers in ARIA. It isn't the RIF that is causing the current drop.

Sorry for the repost. Oracle brags about being a "security" company. They just laid off some of the best security experts in the industry. Oracle Unbreakable Security!!... — read more