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Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

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Re: Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

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As an ex Salesforce employee with lots of friends still there, I'm going to call bullshit on this one.

The engineering org's productivity pain points aren't ever going to be solved by AI magic, or at least certainly not on the core CRM product.

Re: Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

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> Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025

https://careers.salesforce.com/en/jobs/?page=1&team=Software...

It seems they are still "hiring"

If you're seeing software engineering job results in Salesforce, then we can only assume the software engineering jobs listed there are either:

1. Posted last year by Salesforce (can go at any time)

2. Fake Ghost Jobs (more likely)

If you work as an engineer at Salesforce, start to look elsewhere before they intentionally lay you off.

Re: Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

#4

As an ex Salesforce employee with lots of friends still there, I'm going to call bullshit on this one. The engineering org's productivity pain points aren't ever going to be solved by AI magic, or at least certainly not on the core CRM product.

Pharaoh must signal, to shareholders, to a board, and to their peers. There will be no consequences for failure to adhere to this proclamation.

Re: Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

#6

As an ex Salesforce employee with lots of friends still there, I'm going to call bullshit on this one. The engineering org's productivity pain points aren't ever going to be solved by AI magic, or at least certainly not on the core CRM product.

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Re: Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

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《 And then, we will have less support engineers next year because we have an agentic layer. We will have more salespeople next year because we really need to explain to people exactly the value that we can achieve with AI. So, we will probably add another 1,000 to 2,000 salespeople in the short term.” 》

I guess they are building a saleforce at the expense of everything else !

Re: Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff

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We've had two large tribes come to use from SalesForce and tell us all the issues they've had from no support to poor sales relations. My interactions with the support was just downright saddening. I cannot imagine having to do anything AI related with them. Also, most companies now can just build their own CMS with ease, SalesForce is not going to be around for long.
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