Salesforce to cut staff by 10%, close some offices

Salesforce to cut staff by 10%, close some offices(reuters.com)

32 points by __michaelg 3 years ago | 5 comments

saos 3 years ago |

> "As our revenue accelerated through the pandemic, we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we're now facing, and I take responsibility for that."

Another CEO taking the blame.

Lets be real. Salesforce just isn't a great product...atleast from a marketing technologist point of view. Or the product has not evolved?

SamuelAdams 3 years ago | |

What does “taking responsibility” actually mean though? Is the CEO actually receiving any consequences?

voytec 3 years ago | |

> Another CEO taking the blame.

No, Marc Benioff is marketing the blame. If he were to take the blame, he'd relinquish his position as CEO.

lucidone 3 years ago | |

From a developer perspective, trying migrate a behemoth of a salesforce instance to their new tooling (Salesforce DX) in order to introduce version control and pipeline checks has been an absolutely horrible experience.

thehappypm 3 years ago |

5 months of severance is pretty amazing.