I've never seen such attrition in Oracle sales as I've seen this month. Even the supposedly safe Cloud sales and Enterprise Cloud Architect jobs are seeing people leave voluntarily in droves, including the highest paid "Master Principal" and "Distinguished" titles. Bonuses and commissions are down 60% from last year despite the company's claim of glowing revenue. This along with the layoffs have led
sales reps to stop visiting customers as they have little or no technical help. Some sales forecast calls are being canceled as there is nothing to forecast. Sales sold the farm in Q4 (Mar-May), and now the cupboard is bare. ECA managers are spending almost all of their time on interviewing and hiring but are struggling to find qualified cloud architects who are willing to work for Oracle. Nobody is being hired from AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, or Google except for the very highly paid Gen 2 / Bare Metal Cloud R&D jobs in Seattle. Customers who bought Oracle cloud products in May are reporting major problems with simply getting the services they bought provisioned. Oracle Cloud still has only two data centers in the US (Elk Grove / Ashburn for Gen 1 and Phoenix / Ashburn for Gen 2), and customers can clearly see that Oracle is way underinvested in cloud infrastructure. Gartner Group warns customers to talk to references before buying Oracle cloud, but sales reps can find very few successful references even for the flagship Exadata cloud service. The cloud product offerings are a mess, with Gen 1, Gen 2, and dedicated compute services, each with their own limitations. Ask an Oracle sales rep which services are HIPAA or FEDRAMP compliant- good luck and with that, as the security compliance groups are different for
Gen 1 and Gen 2.