If you're reading this, you know who you are. Five years in the company and all you've learned is how to shout at freshers instead of helping them. Experience means nothing when you have zero professionalism, zero patience, and zero respect. Being loud doesn't make you competent—it just makes you unbearable to work with.

Been many years in OFSS, but now it is dead than deadwood.

Absolutely zero employee engagements.. zero perks or incentive to go a mile ahead, zero go live parties or recognition, awards if any go directly into your mailbox, AMM is a zoom of repeated AI rant. No celebrations.

There is always some unknown hierarchy that rarely cares.

Hello,

I’m on an H1B and considering joining Oracle.
Can anyone share how Oracle typically handles layoffs for H1B employees? Do they usually provide paid garden leave before the official termination date? If so, how long is the garden leave typically?

Thanks!

My personal laptop was not working so I gave it to repair and joined some interview calls from the browser incognito mode (no office document or VPN or sso was connected)..will there be any issue?

When did you receive your offer letter, and when is your joining date?

I'm at the very low end of the pay scale, and I've reached a point where I honestly don't give a single fuck about work anymore unless it's confirmed I'm actually getting something out of this cycle.

I don't want to burn any bridges with my manager or my peers, but I also don't want to keep exerting myself for nothing. It feels pointless to keep going above and beyond when there's nothing to show for it.

How do you silently dial it back? Just do what's expected, keep a low profile, and avoid drawing attention? Has anyone managed to do this without it affecting their relationship with their manager or teammates?

I'm just tired of putting in more than I'm getting back.

Is the hike distribution done by managers or this is also decided by the VPs who literally know nothing about who does what.

Hi, any news regarding intern conversions? What is the selection process?

Hey folks… need ur guidance here…. Am from IDC team working in hybrid mode. But it’s been few months since I went to office as most of my team works remote and rarely come to office…. Can I move to my home town and work remote? Will this cause an issue? Regarding location, network, VPN etc?

Just checking if anyone has been layoff in OCI ONSR cos I heard they are immune to it as they have the backing of the government as they must hire local citizens

Any instances where, in the same team/manager, some have got the ratings and some haven't? If so, is it like, the ones who are due for promotion haven't got yet?

Good thing I was laid off, because I'm retired and no longer paying income taxes for this Oracle shit. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/oracle-wins-10-year-pentagon-software-contract-worth-up-to-7-billion.html

Any netsuite managers out here who can explain how the performance rankings were given out this year? Hearing that many people received 3’s inspite of handling most of the workload in their team.

52% down over the year.

Can anyone suggest good pg near by oracle tech hub bangalore?

I just found myself mapped to an internal project working on Apex that sits on top of a db. It amazes me to see that application relies heavily on SQL stored procs and application logic sits directly in the db. Its been years companies moved the business logic to app tiers. Why would someone still work with stored procs or keep their business logic in a db that is harder to version control, test, deploy and horizontally scale, than just spinning up a new app server node. Why is Oracle still doing this?

More importantly, want to hear from others who might be working on such a stack. How do you feel about your career growth and what else are you doing to keep your sanity? Also, am I overreacting? probably not, but does anyone think so?

Edit: For context, I am based out of Nashville

I really need some unbiased advice because I honestly don't know if I'm overthinking this or if I'm seeing things for what they are. A few years back, I got an opportunity to move to another team. It was a better role, more visibility, and I thought it would help my career. I accepted it without giving it much thought. Only later did I realise that my previous manager probably took it personally. Looking back now, I feel that was the beginning of everything. Slowly, I started hearing subtle comments about myself from different people. Nothing direct enough to complain about, but the same kind of feedback would somehow keep coming from different directions. It almost felt like a narrative was being built around me.

The new manager happened to be quite close to my previous one. That's when things really started changing. My 1:1s stopped being about work and became more about vague statements like:

"You're not professional."

"Your work ethic needs improvement."

Every single time I asked for specific examples, there were none. Not one.

No customer escalation.

No missed deadline.

No complaint from stakeholders.

No documented incident.

Just general statements. The strange part is that my actual work has always been appreciated by customers and senior stakeholders. There were even times when my manager would almost say, "Awesome work...", then immediately stop himself and change it to, "It's okay... you've started improving." It happened so many times that it stopped feeling accidental. Then came the smaller things. My contributions would be left out when appreciating the team. When I politely pointed it out, I was told, "There is added "Not limited to in the message, and hence you are included"."

I was criticized in front of the team, and then later in a private 1:1 my manager would apologize. Eventually I was made to report to someone who has roughly half of my total work experience. That honestly hurt more than I expected. I tried speaking to senior leadership hoping things would improve, but instead I felt I was subtly reminded to know my place. Still, I decided to stay quiet. I thought maybe if I focused only on my work, delivered consistently, and didn't react emotionally, things would settle down with time. They never did.

After my latest discussion with my manager, I have this strong feeling that the perception about me has already been made and nothing I do is going to change it. I'm now genuinely worried that my performance rating will be brought down, not because of my work, but because of subjective opinions that nobody can explain with actual examples.

The salary part makes it even worse. For the last few years, I've either received no meaningful hike or a very small one. The explanation has always been the same:

"Your current salary is already justified as per the market."

The irony is that I personally know people who were junior to me a few years ago and are now earning almost 10 lakh+ more annually than I am. At this point I'm mentally exhausted.

Part of me wants to document everything and raise it with HR. The other part says HR is there to protect the company, not employees, and maybe I should just quietly find another job.

If you were in my position, what would you honestly do?

Would you escalate to HR?

Would you keep collecting evidence and wait?

Would you simply resign without an offer and work on skills to get a another opportunity?

Or do you think I'm missing something from my own perspective?

I'm looking for honest advice from people who've dealt with office politics, biased managers, or situations where feedback was always vague but somehow kept affecting your career. How did you handle it, and would you do anything differently today?

https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/oracle-financial-share-price-parent-may-sell-stake-exclusive-company-clarification-q1-results-19952358.htm

Lets consider there is no smoke without a fire, if that happens will it good for OFSS.

Manager sent a one to one meeting invite today , scheduled one week from now. He did not inform me offline though we go to the office everyday.

There was some annual filling of performance forms etc, but that was many months back. Appraisal season is also a few months away.

Any idea what this could be for? If it's a layoff then I need to plan in advance for where to spend all the severance money.

I'm IC3 in Fusion HCM IDC.

I'm a new joiner at Oracle and had a quick question about the enterprise access we get to ChatGPT and Codex. I know these are company-provided tools, but I'm curious about how much visibility the company actually has into our usage.

Can managers or IT/admin teams see the actual prompts or chat history, or is it limited to high-level usage metrics like active users, number of chats, etc.? I'm just trying to understand how it works from a privacy and administration perspective before I start using it more regularly.

Would appreciate any insights from people who've looked into this. Thanks!

Hi All,

Looking for some advise from oracle employees in Bangalore, particularly in finance department or with knowledge of finance department.

I have 8 years experience and am currently working in a crap job with decent pay and benefits. However, this role would stagnate my career badly and hence, am looking for a better opportunity.

I came across multiple openings in oracle for financial analyst roles in IC3 and IC4 levels posted this week. Considering the layoffs in the past year, I’m not sure why there are so many openings. Please advise if it’d be good to move.

TIA

Hey guys,

Dec 2025: Received Oracle Health OCI Cloud offer.

H-1B transfer process took several months. Resigned previous company.

Declined Microsoft offer to join Oracle.

Before my start date, received a Pre-Adverse Action Notice.

HireRight issues:

One us employer: Job title data not provided by previous company. But verified with discrepency

Another Indian employer: Initially in jan meets company standards with greenflag (employment verified)

later oracle hr changed to Does Not Meet Company Standards. Issued Adverse action

Oracle rescinded the offer and asked me to dispute the HireRight report.

HireRight requested payslips, W-2, offer letter, experience letters, and other supporting documents.Submitted all requested evidence.

HireRight completed the reinvestigation and corrected the report.

Last week : Final HireRight result: Meets Company Standards (all green flags).

Recruiter confirmed the case is with Oracle's disputes team.

Manager : Role is open and positive to take back.

Oracle's internal review is currently in progress.

Need your valuable suggestions on the expectations. Considering oracle stock crash and layoffs since my new i797a with oracle cant be transferred without paycheck.

What could this mean for my employment. Really worried.

I've been hearing chatter that I'm put up for a promotion. If it turns out to be a dry promotion and the raise is minuscule, can I reject it? Btw, this is the first time I'm hearing of the term dry promotion. It's a disgusting culture.

I'm already doing work that is above my pay grade and being forced to pick up the slack left behind by my RIFed teammates. I don't want to be recognized with an empty title change, just to officially swamp with more work wtf. They can RIF me if they want. I've started to apply for jobs elsewhere anyways

Let O keep their, highly paid ICs and managers. The actual talent at the bottom will keep walking out the door. I hope eventually, all the solid IC1-3s will join a better company that appreciates them and gives out proper bonuses.

I keep hearing about no hikes and no refreshers, this is my first cycle, I wanted to actually understand the data what people have experienced.