It’s clear to me that the company wants to expand its customer base, but who will pay for the hirings at this cloud data center, and for that matter who will pay for the other locations they plan to open worldwide. Don’t want to sound pessimistic but... read more

Stop wasting your life. Life has to be good.

At Oracle women earn 13,000 less than male counter parts, 13% less in bonuses, 33% less in stock value. They also represent less than 13% of the executive workforce. Lets face it Oracle does not like women. They need some serious help with diversity... read more

A good post: Always thinking of leaving but never leaving because I'm too afraid to leave. I'm over 50 and working from home and being isolated and being in my role has destroyed my career. some of that destruction through a conscious choice to be... read more

Anyone here that Oracle is quietly backing away from cloud? The same way they quietly backed away from sun, from hardware and from engineered systems? My understanding is the focus is now on Apps, not cloud. Basically hosted apps for medium sized... read more

Been at ORCL for 15 years and I'm an IC (now). I chose to move out of management because I couldn't stand lying to my team and misleading them that there was a opportunity to move ahead and get any pay increases. I was an M4 and was told by my... read more

A Quick Poll - Who's Thinking of Leaving? Are you thinking about leaving the company right now? If so, upvote this post please. What would stop you from leaving the company? Is the writing on the wall or is the company going to come back, stronger... read more

Looks like about 150 were laid off from IDC this week. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 20,396. Keep looking, nothing good happening at oracle!

After moving most of cloud UX to Seattle there’s a big cut headed to the group in February including all levels of designers.

Women at Oracle are only there to look nice, know their place and keep their mouths shut. Know this if you are a women interviewing there or if you have an offer in hand... read more

I see on linkedin we opened a new OCI datacenter in Toronto. That must have created some new jobs.

I have wondered if promotions are happening in oracle. I see them bringing in people from Microsoft and other areas, but I have not seen an internal promotion in almost a year. I have heard of people saying they were in line for a promotion for 6... read more

Oracle Office Space - TPS Reports -- Get rid of the fat!! What does this team do? https://video.oracle.com/detail/videos/most-recent/video/5988138737001/2h-strategic-imperatives?autoStart=true

Can former employees (departed last year) download a W-2 from ADP's website? (in the past, the link was in global-ebusiness) or do we have to wait for Oracle/ADP to mail the paper form?

Has anyone else heard this going around the last few days? Workflow/hiring freeze, very interesting considering how many open rec’s there are....

Any news on this?

TK as future CEO of google - that’s funny. I have a cat that can do a much better job and hasn’t hasted tens of billions developing useless garbage like fusion apps. My cat for google CEO and thereafter POTUS !

The answer is pretty simple, feel free to optimize: If (!fake news) { look for new job} else {look for new job} Post ID: @X75FT5H-1rus Exactly.

So I'd like to propose that this site is all fake news and that no layoffs have taken place at Oracle over the past 3 years. Its all just a bunch of rumors. I did look up the Oracle SEC documents 10Qs etc... and I saw over 1.1 billion dollars paid... read more

Oracle engineering is made up of psychos and freaks!! Get the hell out!! The ship is going down, MH is beached on the shore, thrashing his tail. Every other thrash takes out a deck on the ship! Engineering rats, leaches, thugs and freaks gnaw on the... read more

Morgan Stanley doesn’t see any reasons for Oracle (ticker: ORCL) stock to trade materially higher. https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-stock-morgan-stanley-downgrades-51547572633

MH stated that the company goal is that Oracle will hold over 50% of the corporate app market. An ambitious statement to say the least. We have been seeing a lot of these proclamations by the leadership that turned out not to be very close to... read more

Anyone know what company Oracle uses for their ROTH IRA option?

Rumor has it the exec's and LE are implementing an exit strategy to wind down Oracle. It starts soon with a bump to stock dividends. Oracle has about 49 billion in cash and short term investments. It's been spending about 10 billion a quarter in... read more

Two in five CEOs fail within their first 18 months of leading an organization, according to a study published in the Harvard Business Review. One-third of chief executives from Fortune 500 companies don't make it past three years. Achieving goals... read more

So, can somebody gives us an update on the great “Class of Turd” fiasco at oracle? Is the newbie turnover still like 60% plus in a 6 month period? Do they still wreck the Marriott of 101 during training sessions? Do their sales totally s--- b/c they... read more

brainstorming your ideas please

Do not join this group of neanderthals. Sad people playing high school chess to close 5k deals.

So many people leaving Oracle, what is happening in Oracle....?

No major layoffs this past week or calendar year to date, total since 6/1/2016 remains at 20,246. Keep looking, good luck all!

Cloud isnt' "unprofitable" at least on paper because they're calling onprem revenue + cloud revenue -the total revenue. They stopped splitting out cloud only revenue last year and report a combined number. Can't imagine they'd walk away from cloud... read more

OP is: Rumor is more like March 18th after the Q3 2019 announcement that Oracle is shutting down unprofitable divisions. Can't say you were not warned. 2 days ago by Anonymous | 4 reactions (+4/-0) Post ID: @X3FVF1U-ckv

Anybody had any news about how TK is making out at Google ?

IDC Folks got 100% hike! Thats a great news

https://www.propublica.org/article/older-workers-united-states-pushed-out-of-work-forced-retirement ProPublica and the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank, analyzed data from the Health and Retirement Study, or HRS, the premier source of... read more

https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-stock-downgraded-on-lackluster-sales-growth-51547060534 Barclays is getting less bullish on Oracle (ticker: ORCL) stock due to the software company’s meager sales growth.

Once upon a time there was a company called Oracle, it fired it's owned good people and fired itself.

RIFs are coming...that is all.

Oracle Pays More Than $200 Million to Rename San Francisco Giants’ Stadium https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-10/oracle-said-to-pay-more-than-200-million-to-rename-sf-ballpark

I have not heard of any layoff in past 6 weeks or so. Not saying that there are none. Though I hear that so many ppl are moving out of the door to better places. I do see a change as people at top are collecting data points at multiple levels from... read more