Oracle's algorithm targeted top talent with unvested stock: Employee laid off after 34 years

Nina Lewis, who worked at Oracle for nearly 34 years, was fired in the recent layoffs affecting 30,000 people. "It seems layoffs follow an algorithm of high-level individual contributors and mid-level managers, especially those with outstanding stock options," she said on LinkedIn. She added that her firing was quite a shock, and many of her best colleagues were fired too.