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Oracle India employees say project update emails have increasingly created unease, especially after recent layoffs, with many viewing them as a proxy for job cuts.
Oracle, which employs close to 30,000 people in India, is facing anxiety similar to that of its global peers. “Jobs as we know them just don’t exist anymore,” said an affected employee working in the database team. “It was all over in less than 20 minutes — a Zoom invite, the manager on the call, and the HR rep telling me it wasn’t about my performance but purely business reasons. My access was revoked very quickly. My RSUs were due to vest in February, but now I’ll lose them,” he said on condition of anonymity. “My parents depend on me, and telling them was the hardest part,” he said. Another laid-off employee was shocked when what began as a business update quickly turned into a layoff call, citing restructuring. “I’ve signed up for outplacement services. But it will take some time. The HR only outlined the severance we would receive. The entire process felt cold and came as a complete shock,” he added on condition of anonymity.
Oracle is reportedly laying off employees in its cloud unit, impacting teams in both India and the US, according to a report by Data Center Dynamics. The job cuts are in the company’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) division, which includes engineering, data centre operations, and AI/ML functions. Some media reports suggest that nearly 10% of Oracle’s workforce in India has been affected. An email sent to Oracle did not receive a response before this article went to press. TOI could not independently verify the number of layoffs within India’s OCI division.
During her visit in 2016, Oracle CEO Safra Catz announced that Oracle would invest $400 million to build a state-of-the-art campus in Bengaluru, alongside additional investments to establish nine regional software and technology incubation centres across India and an initiative to train over 500,000 Indian students annually. The company already had a significant R&D footprint in Bengaluru, with Oracle India employing around 40,000 people in 2017. Oracle India’s revenue grew to Rs 20,459 crore during the 2023-24 financial year from Rs 18,283 crore last year, representing an increase of 12%, according to data sourced from data intelligence platform Tofler. The company’s net profit for 2023-24 was Rs 1,410 crore, a decrease of Rs 216 crore from Rs 1,626 crore in the previous year. However, financial details for the 2024-25 financial year are not available.
A Reddit megathread revealed that one member of technical staff in Fusion India, with two years of service, received four months’ severance, while another employee in the SaaS observability unit, with 5.6 years of service, was given eight months’ severance. Some Oracle employees are facing the heat globally.
Recently, online tech chronicler CRN reported that over 300 employees across California and Washington have been impacted. Some affected employees cited business reasons, including an AI deal, as Oracle layoffs hit its cloud infrastructure unit amid rising AI investments. Oracle and OpenAI have entered an agreement to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data centre capacity in the US. This investment is expected to create new jobs, accelerate America’s reindustrialisation, and help advance US AI leadership.
In a recent SEC filing, Catz said, “Oracle is off to a strong start in FY26. Our MultiCloud database revenue continues to grow at over 100%, and we signed multiple large cloud services agreements including one that is expected to contribute more than $30 billion in annual revenue starting in FY28.”
- Published On Sep 9, 2025 at 07:53 AM IST
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