No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1/2016 remains at 25,276. Keep looking!

Perhaps it is because there are no layoffs at Oracle, or perhaps it is over enthusiastic moderators removing posts, but when the latest responses are days old on threads, something is not going on.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/04/worldwide_cloud_computing/ Everyone else (presumably including Oracle) list market share.

every tech m—er in january 2017: how can i help. how can i make the world a better place. how about an app... [fast forward three years later]... there are tech people out there creating things that do make the world a better place... — read more 

Anyone else hearing about a massive reorg / layoff in April? Heard there were posts here. Any groups impacted? Any updates?

Please share... Doing some comparisons. Disclaimer - I do not work for Oracle

Toxic. Period... Guys, Salesforce is a terrible environment that is basically Oracle with better marketing. The question about whether Marc knows about this is laughable. As someone who has had a long ride inside the company, I would just say... — read more 

No major layoffs this past week. Total since 6/1-2016 remains at 26,276. More layoffs coming, keep looking folks!

Does anyone know what will happen to the Amsterdam hub? Everyone is leaving at CX and ERPM/HCM. Managers are also all gone. Is SC going to dissolve OD?

No question about it as the stock continues its lackluster performance. Most of the lead sales organization is leaving Oracle in droves due to poor compensation, horrendous leadership and an ever increasing educated client. Oracle is paying the... — read more 

Oracle customers complain of cloud coercion. In my personal experience dealing with customers (former Oracle employee) they tell me in no uncertain terms that Oracle's cloud is seen as a joke. About 70 to 80 percent of my customers have a... — read more 

The axe-man was right. Management met all this week behind closed doors. Hiring freezes are put into place. Layoffs will (and are currently) impacting Consulting this week. If you think you're safe behind NS, think again. It appears that the trend is... — read more 

They are cleaning the house. When is that gonna happen here?

Yep. It was only a matter of time when angry customers, poor customer service and lack of sales leadership would take its toll. Oracle management is panicking as Wall Street evaluates their true position as a cloud leader as we move into FY20-21... — read more 

This Ax-Man guy is a total teller of tall Tales and is a fraud! Nothing he says has come to pass and his observations are inaccurate !! He is a plant from Oracle HR!! DO NOT listen to Ax Man !!

Well when you’ve had 3 VPs in 9 months that can’t seem to get past the “we didn’t have to do this at salesforce” you know the wrong people were hired to bring about positive changes. These cuts should’ve come from the top not the worker bees. Why do... — read more 

Word on the street is they are trying to get rid of people via impossible performance reviews. Reviews were initiated today. Start looking for jobs Oracle is going down

The Ax-Man here, coming to you with the latest info, news and insight with an objective and factual point of view. This week are the big round of management meetings at HQ. Many of these are happening Tuesday and Wednesday, others throughout... — read more 

Back in 2012, Mark Hurd spearheaded a corporate restructuring program to reduce the number of Oracle account contacts. In the past, customers had to deal with one sales rep for each of Oracle’s pillars: database, middleware, applications, engineered... — read more 

This really belongs at the top of a thread: This! https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Beyond-the-database-Digging-deeper-into-Oracles-cloud-strategy-and-its-bid-to-conquer-AWS is telling. River Island CIO Doug Gardner told Computer... — read more 

What's your guess on how many employees the company will have before the end of the year? How about the overall headcount? And headcount at Redwood City?

No major layoffs this past week, but looks like last week’s layoff was closer to a 1,000 than the 500 reported Therefore revising the total. Total number of people laid off since 6/1/2016 is therefore 26,276. Keep looking folks, best of luck!

Most of the cuts are in the Bay Area: WeWork Layoffs (2,000) 23andMe cut 16% or 100 people Quora reduced an undisclosed number Mozilla cut 70 people this month Playful Studios big cut staff just this week Also cutting: Zume... — read more 

Billions and probably tens of billions squandered already on a late arriving, over budget, weak also-ran cloud infrastructure — buggy and on leased data centers not even owned by Oracle. Customer enthusiasm is too low to measure. Zero management... — read more 

The Ax-Man here, updating you folks with latest information. Next week (week of Jan 27) there will be major and numerous high-level meetings happening at Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores. Execs from all several major business units and top... — read more 

Deleted a positive post on Oracle. WTF is wrong with you people here.

Looks like about 500 people were laid off late last week, including BD and cloud success managers, etc. That brings the total since 6/1/2016 to 25,776. It never ends! Keep looking aggressively if you don’t want to be next!

Notice that the TV ads for Netsuite are all "Netsuite" and the word Oracle only gets on screen small at end. Are they spinning off Netsuite? Whatva lolz. LE sells it to Oracle, makes 4.5 billion, then sells it to keep stock up? Plus he... — read more 

I am just gonna leave this salary info here Analysis of compensation, level, and experience details of 19k tech workers https://huyenchip.com/2020/01/18/tech-workers-19k-compensation-details.html

What we are witnessing today at Oracle is a direct result of nearly a decade of tenure for MH in his leadership role. LE has been out of touch with his company as he gave full trust and control to MH and SC. Both of them focused on financial... — read more 

Checked Aria: LE had 47013 on Friday, today: 46683 SF had 89612 on Friday, today: 89459 Granted, some left voluntarily. And no, I'm not from Oracle HR you dumb****!

Is it possible that many of these very well written posts telling us why everyone should leave Oracle ASAP possibly be written by someone in Oracle Human Resources so as to get as many of us to quit on our own and thereby avoid the bad PR (both... — read more 

After getting back from the Holiday break and looking at mid-quarter numbers and run-rate being nowhere NEAR projections, Oracle leadership was in a state of shock. Previous internal management plans to reduce headcount and optimize the size of... — read more 

Another dumb idea from above. It's NOT the software. It can't be. If that's the problem, then there is nothing that can be done. So we'll hire a new Chief Marketing Officer. We just aren't selling it right, yeah, yeah, that's the... — read more 

no media coverage on this one. i think at this point nobody cares about job cuts here, it's so frequent - it's almost a normal order of business

My team got hit bad. Anybody in consulting labeled OCI is gone. And leaves regular consultants who are useless here. I know US, Canada in a similar boat. OCI is underperforming revenue wise. Whackings ain’t gonna fix it - leadership will. — read more 

not sure how that works without login, but wanted to see if anyone finds it any useful...

If you look in the mirror and say SAFRA SAFRA SAFRA she will actually appear behind you and VIOLENTLY RIF YOU WITH HER SPREADSHEET REDUCTION! Stay safe people. Pray to whatever you believe in. Keep your head down and never, ever, look at the... — read more 

ORCL passed its 50 and 200 days moving average, which means technically it gives a BUY signal.