r/employeesOfOracle

Base: 190k

RSU: 330k

Should I take it or not?

I heard from team members that new layoffs are about to hit Oracle India and targeting people who have between 3 to 12 months of experience.

Any news on it ? Is this being done to avoid severance ?

Noticed some folks comparing AMERICAs getting paid more than them in BLR/IND, but don't know the cost of living.

Maybe this is a good reality comparison video offshore colleague sent me saying they wrong

Some here mentioned as below. How true or valid is this. Managers or someone with confirmed source can tell.

There are two groups of employees right now:

1. people chosen for hikes or promotions, these already have their review completed and management is currently agreeing on the compensation increases
2. the rest, those people will stagnate or be eventually laid off, these people have their reviews still "in progress" and it will be revealed after hike or promotion deadline

During my last month and a half the workload and work pressure kept increasing to unbelievable levels, I used to work with a minimum of 12 hours a day. It was very depressing experience to be working under the fear of being laid off, fear of making mistakes, and being out there in today’s job market. My anxiety was extreme. I remember laying on my bed and almost crying about how I can’t take it anymore. I started immediately looking for alternatives. But, let me tell you something. being laid off was for the better and was my chance to recover, regain control of my mental health, time, and find better opportunities, less stressful and with more income. I have not gotten salary hike since I joined the company and I was hired with 30% salary increase. If you find you may get impacted soon which I did based on my monitoring of Reddit and the rumors. Do yourself a favor and start applying and networking early as the hiring process takes time and you need to be prepared and mentally ready for interviews to handle them well. The reason I’m saying this is because by the time I was laid off I already had my second interview which helped a lot to make feel grateful for the layoff and save my severance package without spending a dollar from it ! I was surprised by the fact that others find Oracle is an incredible experience that can’t be matched outside and people consider you a very valuable candidate !

I wish you all the best

Folks ,

I see lot of new hiring posts in OCI . I’ve been laid off recently in April 2026. Since then I’ve been applying to various roles at OCI , but didn’t even got a call from recruiter ?

Just curious - Are laid off employees being considered for the new roles ?

Any managers or interviewers plz share the insights

Did anyone notice the weird price spikes and immediate sell offs on semi-regular intervals on Thursdays down day? I’m reading that as institutional purchases ahead of a formal OpenAI Government announcement that would de-risk the counterparty risk that ORCL faces on so much of their RPO with OpenAI. But I also was surprised that the stories about its proposal didn’t drive meaningful price action so I question my own theory. Would love others reads?

Some people are already saying that if our manager hasn't reached out by now, we're probably not getting a promotion or hike. I know different orgs and teams can have different timelines, but hearing that has me spiraling.

If it turns out to be true, I think I'm done. I can't keep doing this every cycle.

I don't want to get my hopes up, but it's hard not to when people around me are getting promoted. I've been working hard too, so it's only natural to wonder if this might finally be my turn. Right now, the uncertainty is honestly the worst part.

I got the final vested RSU this year. Theres no more vesting in the future. I got 5% raise in my salary in my 5 years 👁️👄👁️

Planning to leave this year. Should I reach out to my manager to ask for raise first? my target next salary is Current salary X 2 🫠

I note to myself that if I will get another and new RSU this year, I would stay for another 4 years again 👀

I am just thinking whether we should expect some hike or promotion this year, did you guys get any hint from your manager or senior management

Using GPT definitely makes things more convenient, but the workload it creates kind of balances that out. Is it just me, or does GPT feel a bit slow when it comes to coding tasks? It also makes a lot of mistakes even when I give very detailed prompts. It misses out on important details, which is really frustrating.

Management and leads act like GPT is doing all our work, and that we shouldn’t get paid for promting. They just say, “Just use GPT,” like it magically gets everything done perfectly.

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RSUs can be sold after resignation or vested RSU also get forfeited if someone resigns or laid off ?

Is there a lock-in to sell RSU?

Why do i feel like all of you are getting raise this year but keep in it low 😔
Ive heard from more than one source managers/VP’s that there’s focal this year but not for everyone m just trying to understand the criteria
Also did your managers start filling your performance evaluation, not the case for us yet

I am an Oracle employee and tried to get a loan from Bajaj finance for personal reasons.

After providing all the documents, they rejected my loan saying "We are not providing loans to Oracle employees as it listed in the D group of companies". Meaning, the instability of the job due to mass layoffs has put the employees at risk. Apparently many loans have been rejected for Oracle employees.

I am shocked that I work at a place that is not able to fetch me a loan.

I thought Oracle was at a top spot in the market but today was really a wake up call!

Does Oracle care about its current name in the market?

I don’t know if this related to the community but i appreciate your help and advice🙏🏻
I graduate last year class of 2025
And i’m now will hit my fifth month at my first job in my career
I’m an Associate oracle fusion financial consultant
And currently we have very limited time in the company because, our project suppose to go life very soon ( assigned on the project as support)
My senior give me a scenario to test on X dev instance it’s very complicated solution though and very important to our client’s satisfaction and i figure out a workaround for it, then i did mistake by deleting something completely from the database and that caused a problem
I worte to my scenior that the solution i suppose to test working because i test it on Y dev instance and reached my limit on solving the mistake and admitting that i did accidentally, it’s been whole day and he saw the message but didn’t respound
I feel horrible worked nearly over 11 hr from tomorrow and slept for 3 hours with no food
I can’t reduce the feeling of not being guilty, and that i wasted the trust he gave it to me
I read on internet and from other people on reddit that it’s normal to make mistake when you’re junior and even that sometime seniors can fall in a mistake, but i want to hear an oracle familiar people’s POV
Thanks in advance 🙏🏻
Update: Thank you everyone for the advice and reassurance. I took some time to calm down, kept investigating the issue, and learned a lot from the experience. I still have validation to complete with my senior, but reading your comments really helped me put things into perspective. I truly appreciate everyone who took the time to reply🙏🏻

>!Long post warning!<

I got RIF’d on March 31st after a 5-year run(OCI). 4+ ratings every year, but layoffs weren’t new in my org. Still stung. The severance was decent.

This isn’t a rant about the RIF. It’s what I did next, what flopped, and what actually got me offers. Maybe it helps someone else.

&gt; During garden leave: March 31st - last working day

1. Certs: Knocked out 4 cloud certs, mostly ornamental. But kept me busy and a bit of confidence boosting.

2. Outplacement services: Company-provided. Zero leads, but the resume critique was useful. Current trends = shorter, impact-driven, ATS keywords.

3. Mental reset: Spent the last week in the mountains. Call it semi-mountain leave. Needed it.

&gt; Post-separation: Month 1

1. Spray + pray phase: Resume on every portal. Applied heavily on LinkedIn.

2. Reality check: Auto-rejection mails even when I was a 90%+ fit. ATS is brutal.

3. Interviews: 4 calls via portals. Blew 2 of them. Rusty, no match practice. Panic started creeping in.

4. Action: Rewrote resume 3x. Targeted applications only. Quality > quantity.

&gt; Month 2 - 3: Momentum shift*

1. Recruiters started calling: 6-7 interviews. Some lowballed, some were bad fits. Did 2 HireVue rounds 🤢never again.

2. Turning point: Week 3 onwards, process speed picked up. Got 3 offers by month-end:

-2 decent offers

- 1 with 25% hike + level bump

3. Plot twist: Best offer came via LinkedIn DM. Not an application. Not a portal. Cold DM from a hiring manager.

Haven’t accepted yet. Giving it 1 more week to explore without getting greedy.

&gt; My blunt observations - not universal, just my experience

Jobs exist, competition is insane: LI posts get 100+ applicants in 30 mins. 80% are unqualified spray-and-pray I assume, but you still get buried.

ATS/Human gap is the real bottleneck: Biggest challenge isn’t skill. It’s getting a human to evaluate the resume. Referrals >> portals>>LI

Are those jobs even real?: Genuinely doubt if half the LI postings have urgency. Ghost jobs + pipeline-building is real.

Big Tech hiring = tricky: More loops, more scrutiny. Referral is almost mandatory to get past the noise. RIF isn’t a scarlet letter anymore: No interviewer cared. But lowballing happened twice.

OCI skills demand: Negligible. 90% of interviews drilled me on other hyperscalers (prev exp). OCI was “so tell me about that” context only.

Resume AB testing: We have to tweak and track. I had 3 versions. One got 2x more callbacks. Same person, different keywords.

Bottom line: Perseverance and resume iterations are the . LI job postings turned out to be mostly useless for me, but keeping my LI profile relevant helped me in getting the DM, I guess. Got much better response from the Job portals though (36 resume downloads in 2 months). So, keeping it updated with the right key words is a must.

If you’re in the same boat: it sucks, but it’s not career-ending. Keep tweaking, keep talking to people, and take that 'mountain week' or 'beach week' -whatever works for you!

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Dream jobs and dream companies don’t exist anymore. It’s a transaction- skills for money. We should keep emotions out of it. Else, better to pursue what makes us happy, provided it pays out the monthly bills too!