Oracle has revoked campus placement and pre-placement offers (PPOs) made to students at several Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology, leaving more than 50 final-year students scrambling for alternatives late in the placement cycle. The decision was formally communicated to placement cells around May 13 and 14, 2026.
Affected institutions reportedly include IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Roorkee, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, NIT Warangal and VNIT Nagpur. Oracle had hired the freshers for application developer roles and for its server technology teams. The company has cited internal restructuring and revised headcount targets as the reason. Reports indicate that one of the impacted business units, Oracle Health and application infrastructure, was shut down recently, leading to the rescissions across the country.
“My PPO offer from Oracle (Day 0 company) was recently revoked due to internal restructuring and headcount-related changes,” wrote one affected student in a LinkedIn post that has been widely circulated. Several institutes confirmed that the offers had been withdrawn “at no fault” of the selected candidates.
The development creates significant logistical hurdles for the impacted students due to the “one student, one job” policy enforced by most premier engineering campuses. Under that policy, students are generally barred from participating in further recruitment drives once they accept a firm offer. With Oracle’s Day Zero offers withdrawn so late in the cycle, affected students now have limited access to active campus interviews.
John Jose, Head of the Centre for Career Development at IIT Guwahati and Convener of the All IITs Placement Committee (AIPC), said the committee is in discussions with Oracle to reconsider the decision or provide compensation. Standard AIPC guidelines typically request that companies revoking offers provide three months’ salary as severance.
The move follows a global restructuring exercise at Oracle that has affected nearly 30,000 employees worldwide, with reported layoffs in India of around 12,000 roles in earlier rounds. The cuts have been linked to the company’s heavy AI infrastructure investment cycle and its aggressive pivot toward AI-led product priorities.
For Indian HR and TA leaders, the episode highlights a sharpening risk in entry-level tech hiring even at top-tier campuses. Several institutes have begun reviewing how PPO contracts are drafted and whether to push for stronger guarantees, including binding severance clauses and notice periods, when companies make Day Zero offers.
The AIPC’s discussions with Oracle are ongoing, and placement cells across affected campuses are working with companies that conduct lateral hiring to absorb impacted students.
