Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

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I think the nerdy gals have already left. It's just a geriatric ward for old tech dudes now and the kids.

Of course, there are a few incompetent people in the middle trying to do as little work as possible.

The thing to realize is that the culture is going to go very quickly from bad to worse.

As the cloud numbers don't improve, the layoffs will continue. Each group will be working to make sure someone else is laid off, not them. And within each group a pecking order will be established to make sure the manager's lackeys are always left standing.

If you thought there were dirty tricks being played before, it will be a free-for-all in the sabotage, humiliate and attack game.

If you don't want to be one of the attackers and you don't want to be attacked, you need to get out.

If you are 50 and think you will be waiting for retirement at Oracle, I don't think you are going to make it. The company is targeting the older employees. If you are 50 and making a bay area salary, you can be replaced by 4-5 developers in India. You may think you are the only one that knows an area and you are safe, but the management looks at the numbers, not your experience.

Better to update your skills and start looking. At least you will know what is out there before you get your walking papers.

Spot on description of the oracle culture.

Meanwhile, if you’re from oracle and moving to a competitor, you better get yourself ready to up your game and work well with others. Basically the opposite of oracle culture.

I was only at oracle a short while before quitting out of a need for sanity, self respect and self preservation. In the time I was there I never saw such ridiculousness and ineptitude. Longtime Folks at Oracle and the college kiddos don’t stay on top of current technologies or test and learn new technologies. It’s simply not in their culture to stay sharp. The kids are current on social media postings but nothing deeper than that. The old timers can barely use their phone camera to capture receipts for their expense reports. It’s a geriatric home for aging tech dudes & a few nerdy gals. As for the college kids, they’re quitting in mass...and those that don’t, well....,

It could be that he is so simple minded, that he has no clue what the effects are, of what he does. I suspect he does not have a mind that can picture the people in the company and how acquisition after acquisition actually affects things internally. He only sees the numbers, the money exchange and the names of products he knows nothing about.

High-functioning autism, numbers only please, don't bother me with people info. Works to a certain point. I suspect a lot of CEOs are in that category. In some ways it helps not to be bothered with thinking about people and how you are destroying them, while you are making your money.

LE never care about culture, good management, etc. doesn’t fit in his frame of mind and takes too much effort as far as he is concerned.