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A dozen current and former Oracle employees say there is a culture of fear at its flagship cloud unit.
Cloud boss Clay Magouyrk sometimes tries to get results by beating down employees emotionally, they say.
OCI, the cloud unit, has lost at least a dozen VPs since the start of 2020, and is facing lawsuits.
In May 2017, Oracle executive Clay Magouyrk was presenting at a livestreamed all-hands meeting for the database giant s nascent cloud unit when he ran into a problem with his laptop. The attendees who spoke with Insider said that while they each remember a slightly different version of Magouyrk s exact wording, the gist of his frustrated aside was that the laptop must ve been built by tiny Asian hands.