Ex-Oracle employee to former colleagues impacted by latest layoff: 'A painful chapter, but it is not the end of your story'

A former Oracle software engineer has addressed his ex-colleagues and peers impacted by the company’s latest layoffs with a deeply personal and grounded message—one shaped by his own years inside the company. He acknowledges the emotional weight of the moment. Layoffs, he said in a LinkedIn post, are not just corporate decisions on paper—they disrupt lives, identities, and routines overnight. He had spent about five years with Oracle from 2020 to 2024.

For those on the receiving end, the experience can feel sudden, disorienting, and unfair. Having worked within Oracle’s engineering ecosystem, his central message is clear: a layoff is an event, not a definition. He reminds impacted employees that their value hasn’t changed simply because their employment status has. The same engineers who built systems, scaled platforms, resolved outages, and supported teams remain just as capable today. Their skills, discipline, and resilience are intact.




"I know firsthand Oracle has some incredibly strong people, and I have no doubt many of you will land on your feet. This may be a painful chapter, but it is not the end of your story," he said in his Linkedin post.

Drawing from his own experience as a senior backend and distributed systems engineer, Robertson points out that Oracle has long been home to exceptional technical talent. From cloud infrastructure to large-scale Java platform modernisation, he has seen firsthand the caliber of people behind the scenes. That gives him confidence that many of those affected will find their footing again, even if the path forward feels uncertain right now.


The layoffs themselves are part of a broader restructuring effort. As reported by CNBC, Oracle is cutting thousands of roles globally as it reallocates resources and sharpens its focus on artificial intelligence. The company, which employed around 162,000 people as of mid-2025, is investing heavily to compete with cloud giants like Alphabet and Amazon. A recent filing also projected up to $2.1 billion in restructuring costs, much of it tied to severance and workforce changes.

Companies such as Meta have also announced layoffs as they pivot aggressively toward AI, contributing to tens of thousands of job cuts across the tech sector this year. As tech companies reallocate resources towards AI buildout, 70 tech companies have cut around ⁠40,480 jobs so far this year, per Layoffs.fyi.