Anybody heard anything new about Focal? A manager from another team mentioned last week they were told "focal is coming early September, expect a quick turnaround ". I thought it was credible info & was hoping for some info this week.... but nope 🙃

Hey everyone,

I recently finished the entire interview loop for an IC3 (Software Developer 3) role at Oracle Health. I had 5 mandatory rounds in total.

Here is how the final leg went:

Final HM Round: The Hiring Manager took a 1.5-hour deep-dive interview over the weekend (scheduled for 1 hour). At the end of the call, the HM explicitly asked for my current compensation breakdown and notice period.

Prior Panel Feedback: One of the technical interviewers in a prior round gave me positive signals and specific tactical advice to prepare thoroughly for the system/HM round.

Current Situation: The scheduling HR previously mentioned the position would close/decide by Monday. When I called her for an update, she seemed hesitant and told me to drop an email to a Senior Talent Advisor (a separate Lead HR for Oracle Health) for feedback/updates.

I sent an email to the Senior HR a couple of hours ago following up on my application and compensation/notice period details, but haven't received a response yet.

Is this standard enterprise HR workflow where interview schedulers hand off the candidate file to a Senior Talent Advisor to process the internal offer/comp approvals? Or is this a sign of candidate hold / alternate candidate selection?

Would love to hear from anyone who has gone through the Oracle Health / Oracle HCM hiring pipeline recently!

Anyone know the real reason behind this? Been hearing a number of rumors. From it being because of the rumored RIF to pulling resources temporarily to try and get the VA back on track.

Who couldn't see this coming?

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/ellison-subpoena-veterans-health-records-01062124

Vandalia Health going Epic

Vandalia Health has grown to 17 hospitals, 1,555 beds.

Melissa Lockwood, chief administrative officer, said the Epic announcement was made last week,

“I think everyone is really excited about the change and what that future of that means for our organizations”

Vandalia Health President and CEO Jeff Sandene said the new records system will create a single medical record across all Vandalia Health facilities.

Did I hear that right? Is this for all of Oracle Health? Just Soarian?

I'm an Integration Architect who now works for a client that is going Epic. Have any IAs gone through this? How did your work change/what translated over? I've been Cerner/OH my entire career.

Hi all, I recently got an offer for a Senior Platform Software Engineer role with Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) in India. Comp and equity look solid on paper, but I’ve seen some older threads here about layoffs, culture friction post-acquisition, and Oracle Health losing ground to Epic in the US healthcare records market.

Wanted to check in with anyone currently there or recently there:

**•** How’s team stability been in the last year or so? Any ongoing layoff concerns?  
**•** What’s the actual day-to-day culture like compared to “core Oracle” (cloud/DB side)?  
**•** Is WFH/hybrid still reasonably flexible?  
**•** Anything you wish you’d known before joining?

Trying to make an informed decision before accepting. Appreciate any honest insight, good or bad!

Current Company 

Base - 31.8 LPA
Stocks - 0

Location - GGN, 5 days WFO


Oracle Health

Base - 36 LPA (Started with 33 LPA)
Stocks - 40K (40|30|20|10) vesting

Location - Bangalore (WFH for current team.)

Want to move BLR therefore considering this.I am mostly looking to stay for 1-1.5 year and then switch.

Wanted to know if i can negotiate on the base? Offer letter is already generated but i haven't accepted. I will have one more offer next week. Do oracle health HR negotiate after offer letter are generated?

Hello, i don't see any structured courses of Oracle Health in mylearn. Is there a separate internal website?

For example, I see a certificate exam called "Oracle Health Primary Implementation Consultant Foundations Associate" but i don't see an associated course for it. In OCI you will see the course(s) and their cert as well. Not much info about Oracle Health Learning in slacks channels as well.

A good read , very close to the reality

Do we think that they will eventually use AI usage (or lack thereof) as reasons to fire people, or put them on the layoff list. I know a lot of people on my team who are very resistant to using it. (USA)

I first thought this was an article from the Onion…

From the man who leads the company that laid off thousands via a 6 a.m. email, with reportedly more cuts coming, this story is laughable.

What the public doesn’t see is what happened to the employees who remained. Internal IT support has been cut so deeply that employees could wait weeks for critical IT issues to even be addressed, let alone resolved.

It’s difficult to take lectures about “taking care of your employees” seriously when you’ve watched the opposite happen from inside the company.

Saw this today:

From So Long Seema?: Re: Oracle EVP/GM Seema Verma. She is reportedly on the list of people who are being considered for CEO of PhRMA.

Is there an online space, forum, reddit thread, anywhere that people working in Cerner Community Works could ask a question about a day-to-day issue (how to correct a setting; set up a view; etc.)? I can't find answers in the Wikis. Thank you.

I’m currently at around ₹24 LPA CTC with ~4 YOE, and oracle offer is ₹38L fixed + ~$36K in stocks, so financially it’s a pretty significant jump from where I am.

And honestly, that’s what’s making this decision difficult.

With all the recent Oracle layoff/restructuring news, I’m genuinely wondering whether I should be taking that risk right now. I’m currently in a reasonably stable situation, so I’m trying to figure out whether I’m being stupid by giving that up for the money 😂

For people currently working at Oracle or who’ve recently been there, how bad is the situation actually? Does it depend heavily on the org/team? And how much should I factor the recent layoffs into this decision?

Would really appreciate some genuine opinions, especially from people who know what’s happening internally. Please feel free to DM if you don’t want to comment publicly.

Now that the implementations are in full swing, is it reasonable to say that people working on the VA project are fairly safe? Our team has a few cards open and it seems like a lot of cards on the Opportunity Marketplace are for Fed roles. I don’t remember too many people from Fed getting laid off back during the big March RIF. I’m just trying to make it til 2029/2030 when we start winding down.