Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara

Re:Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara by chambo622 on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:16AM (#13453889)

Does anyone track the frequency and size of layoffs from tech companies? It certainly feels that there has been a notable uptick in layoff news over the past 6-12 months.

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Re:Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara by frik on Sunday January 22, 2017 @06:02AM (#13454659)

In the 2001 dot com bubble, there was Fucked Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

Search for tech bubble, unicorn corpse/unicorpse.

Unicorn list to watch: http://fortune.com/unicorns/

Best sites to watch: https://www.cbinsights.com/research-downround-tracker and https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ and https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

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Re:Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara by dajohnson89 on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:43AM (#13453986)

Perhaps HN needs a monthly "Who's firing?" thread.

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Re:Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara by who_is_firing on Sunday January 22, 2017 @05:45AM (#13454614)

I have tried to start one from another alias (whoisfiring) but hacker news shadow banned me after my 2nd submission so I created this one. Unfortunately the latest thread didn't have many comments.

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Re:Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara by trome on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:08AM (#13454072)

I want to say there was one of those I read a while back, covered which startups were shutting down, which were shrinking/changing direction, some larger businesses mixed in, etc.

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Re:Oracle laying off hundreds in Santa Clara by steinerj on Sunday January 22, 2017 @05:48AM (#13454624)

Yep. thelayoff.com does... not exclusively tech, but very good source. The Oracle layoffs where rumored and discessed there months ago.

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