Oracle Cuts Double-Digit % of Some Teams While Hiring Aggressively for Data Centers and AI
mkheck · x · 2026-09-14
Oracle kicked off layoffs with some teams hit by double-digit percentage cuts, with terminated employees told it was their last day and severance handled via DocuSign.
Meanwhile, hiring over the past 90 days shows a sharp pivot: data-center construction, power infrastructure, network reliability, senior mechanical engineering, AI/ML, AI data-center delivery and operations roles, with multiple hires poached from AWS (including EC2 Core Finance) and Microsoft's critical-environment teams. The restructuring points to Oracle reallocating headcount from legacy software toward AI and data-center infrastructure.
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