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A friend of mine was hired by Salesforce in January. He worked there for six months. In that time, he did the haphazard onboarding they offered him... and that
by ivraatiems 4y ago
A friend of mine was hired by Salesforce in January. He worked there for six months. In that time, he did the haphazard onboarding they offered him... and that was it. Every day, he would ask his manager for work. Every day, his manager would tell him to hang in there, work was coming soon.
He never did a single moment of actual money-making or money-saving work for the company. They paid him about $50,000 for the privilege. Exhausted by the absurdity of the situation, he quit, and is now making substantially more money elsewhere... but also has actual work to do.
Nice gig if you can get it, I guess.
- maximinus_thrax 4y agoNot sure what is the point of this anecdote. In any company of 7k people, regardless of how lean it's run, you'll definitely find at least one person in that situation. I think you're trying to say that Salesforce did the right thing to lay off 10% of its workforce, which would be quite insensitive in this context.
- ivraatiems 4y agoIt wasn't "at least one" person - it was his whole org, everyone his manager managed, his director, etc. I'm saying that if Salesforce has employees in this situation, they are making poor hiring decisions and it's no wonder they had a spare 10% of employees to lay off. I certainly am not glad anyone got laid off, but we wouldn't be in this position in the first place if Salesforce knew what they were doing.