Truly Oracle shareholders haven't had it so good with $38.6b of pure profit being added to ORCL's bottom line. That profit helps pay for your RSUs and severance.

A while back I got some good advice on how to leave a situation behind and move on. Good advice should always be shared. I share it here for anyone who has been harassed by anyone at Oracle or elsewhere. This has been very interesting material... — read more 

How long do I have to leave oracle before I can come back and demand a bigger salary?

We are expected to post earnings of $1.32 for current quarter, which would be a yoy change of almost 11% +. For FY we are expected to post $6.19, which would be almost 13% increase yoy. Sales Revenue is also showing a 6-9% increase. And this is... — read more 

Wonder how good Oracle's cloud support is. AWS support seems to have some problems. I had an AWS account for a few months, used the mail send system SES and right before I released they sent me an email saying my 12 months of free tier were over. ... — read more 

I’m hearing it’s “focal” season, how did everyone do vs when was your last “raise”? To me it sounds like these would be considered at other companies: very delayed basic COLA adjustments. Am I wrong in my assessment that many are basically at... — read more 

I am hearing that layoffs are coming to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Q4 to help boost revenue year end numbers. This is combined with a consolidation in OCI Analytics& BI and Big Data teams. OCI and Oracle SaaS account for about 66% of our... — read more 

Thinking of taking a job at a different software company. I've been working for the big O. for a few decades now and was wondering if there is a noncompete clause and if so, how would I go about finding it without asking my manager?

My manager who is on vacation has suddenly called me for a 15 minute meeting. I'm in the Boston area.

I left Oracle some time ago and have since worked at a few companies. Large, small, public and private. What I noticed was that there are just bad people out there. I know it sounds corny, but there are just cr-ppy angry nasty people out there. While... — read more 

Anyone know the max? 8? 10?

Oracle has recently made job cuts in its United States analytics and advertising division, impacting employees in the customer experience division12. The company planned thousands of job cuts globally after discussing cutting $1 billion in expenses2... — read more 

Anyone else get the notification meeting today?

I don't come here as much as I used to, but not surprising to see that things have not changed. I was in the marketing org, which seems to still be on life support. If you are there, tell us how it is, and many blessings to you.

When is OA UK layoff any solid info?

For all of us who have toiled at the big O for years and years and were told that our opinions mattered and we could all let our voices be heard via ESOP, ESPP, Equity Plans all of which were our vehicle "to have a say" in the company. Well, 52%... — read more 

Could anyone working in Oracle share the distribution of employees approximately in each category based on your insights, perceptions and thoughts? E.g. IC2 15% IC3 60% iC4 20% IC5 5% ??? Thanks

Hello everyone, In the past, I was laid off from a large US tech corporation, so I am very cautious. I was recently contacted by Oracle for an open position. Could you please share your honest opinions about the company culture and particularly if... — read more 

What’s going on with layoff’s? Middle mgmt scared? Quiet on harassment lately. Must be difficult not to be hating on employees…

If really nothing good comes out of your time working at any company really, I'd question if this rather has to do something with personality. I worked at great and also mediocre companies in my career so far - with Oracle being in the mediocre... — read more 

Got meeting invite on Monday from SVP. Does anyone know if it’s for layoff?

In a few days it'll be exactly a months that _the big O_ has decided to __exit__ advertising. So far, US employees either have been terminated or have moved internally (plenty went to OHAI). But does anyone know when the redundancy process for OA _in... — read more 

Bought on the cheap for $1.75 billion.

So sweetie- pie Safra has dumped OA to the curbed. Which begs the question- Which orgs are next on the chopping block? Guaranteed that more chopping is going to happen this year!

https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/28/veterans-affairs-ehr-oracle-cerner-inaccessible-lawsuit/

That not one single person I have come across on here has said that there time at Oracle was great, satisfactory, lived up to their expectations, that it went as well as they had hoped. Not one single person. I reckon after many careers are long gone... — read more 

Any hope of Oracle’s advertising division continuing under new ownership is fading fast, as the company’s bosses show zero interest in selling it off. They’re done with advertising, leaving its executives to face the... — read more 

tomorrow's the day. 80% of team will be informed of last day. remainder (in EMEA, with different than US law), will follow after legal appropriate notification periods. Buckle up!

I know this event may be celebrated on different dates around the world, but everyone should have a Happy Father’s Day one day of the year. All the other days are Mother’s Day! ;-)

Does Oracle include a hush payment element in payoff packages? Ie an NDA to stop people talking to the media

What's Oracle typical redundancy package? Please state the country it applies.

How many of you sold today?

Probably the best M&A ever for ORCL.

Trying to catch up. On maternity leave.

“The company, known for its database software, is focused on expanding its cloud infrastructure unit — which rents computing power and storage — to compete with Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. While this division produces... — read more 

In the earnings call Safra mentioned that in Q4 they decided to exit the advertising business. All hands scheduled for tomorrow. What does this mean?

Who may I ask is giving ORCL cloud business?

Massive layoffs!

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/misdirection

May the New Year bring you peace, love and happiness, wherever you may be, and whatever you are doing!