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Posted on 04/09/2026 6:58:22 AM PDT by Libloather
The initial wave of a massive bloodbath at Oracle has begun to show up in public filings — with 700 workers expected to lose their jobs by June 1, according to California state records.
The software giant headed by billionaire Larry Ellison will cut 310 workers in Redwood City, 184 in Santa Clara, 158 in Pleasanton and 50 in Santa Monica.
The statewide tally of roughly 700 job cuts, in addition to 491 firings in Seattle, is part of the software maker’s recently announced bloodbath that is reportedly in the thousands of jobs.
Analysts at investment bank TD Cowen predicted earlier this year that Oracle could cut up to 30,000 workers and sell some of its assets amid a push to finance AI infrastructure projects.
The company had 162,000 global employees as of May 2025.
Oracle’s cuts are part of a broader tech layoff frenzy.
The first three months of 2026 saw tech companies dump 52,050 workers — a 40% jump from the same period last year, executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a report, with artificial intelligence increasingly being blamed for the cuts.
In addition to Oracle, the state filings show that chip stalwart Qualcomm will lay of 67 workers in San Diego by late May and Meta will say goodbye to nearly 200 workers in Silicon Valley over the same time period.
Companies in California planning a mass layoff, plant closure or relocation are required to provide advance notice.
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Postgres works for free.
Another Covid-like scare?
Learn coalmining.
Gotta pay for Warner Bros.
or just replacing them with Indians
Why would Oracle need 30,000 workers?
Get an H1-B visa
Learn to plumb
Unfortunately not.
Takes a lot of manpower to install and program all of those tens of thousands of cameras across the country/globe.
supposedly oracle has run out of money on some gigantic AI project underway, and they need to cut costs and sell assets to complete it ...
OTOH, if oracle can get rid of that many employees in the first place, sounds to me like they didn’t really need them in the first place, or at least they think they don’t really need them ... after all, elom musk fired 80% of twitter’s employees within weeks of his takeover, and twitter [now ‘X’] doesn’t seem to have missed a beat ...
Become an electrician. Plenty of work wiring up new mega-datacenters.
Replace coders with AI. What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe ask Microsoft. They are in the process of finding out as Linux is taking over.
April, 2026:
Oracle Files Thousands of H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs
"Federal data shows the tech giant filed for over 3,000 foreign worker visas as it cuts thousands of American jobs."
https://nationaltoday.com/us/tx/austin/news/2026/04/03/oracle-files-thousands-of-h-1b-visa-petitions-amid-mass-layoffs/
Y'know, because AI! Because money! Oh, but really because the Ellisons are supporters of the President. ODS.
And Oracle simultaneously filed permission for over 3,000 H1-B workers.
A friend got laid off. He hit the ground running and I believe he has another similar job at a comparable pay structure. He did not make a single whine about it.
He was laid off from Oracle.
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