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Heard this has affected engineering too, not just or mostly sales as people were thinking or happened before. (I remember a hiring manager years ago telling me

by Jach 4y ago

Heard this has affected engineering too, not just or mostly sales as people were thinking or happened before. (I remember a hiring manager years ago telling me once that there hadn't ever been any layoffs, all I could think was "yet".) For those affected, typical full systems cut-off as well, not very ohana of them to just terminate with no notice... Still, not unexpected given everything else going on. Glad I'm not competing for tech jobs at the moment.

thehappypm 4y ago
Not terribly surprising. Salesforce sells enterprise products — the sales team is basically a necessity; overly cutting salespeople would have a big revenue impact.
tootie 4y ago
I wonder if a lot of this is just redundancy from their acquisition binge.
fatnoah 4y ago
The quote below is from the email sent to employees, which was also filed with the SEC: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108524/000110852423000003/ex991-lettertoemployees.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108524/000110852423... > In the U.S., affected employees will receive a minimum of nearly five months of pay, health insurance, career resources, and other benefits to help with their transition. That minimum seems to be better than the best package I've seen so far in this layoff cycle. I got two months of garden leave plus an additional 3 months of COBRA. The garden leave was mandated by WARN act (or they would have to notify me and have me work for 60 days), so the only real severance was the 3 months of COBRA. Of all the "big" companies I've worked for, Salesforce was the top in terms of seeming to actually care about its employees and the world.
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