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    Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025 due to AI
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    Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025 due to AI

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    1. MetaKnowing on

      CEO Marc Benioff: “We’re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with Agentforce and with other AI technology that we’re using for engineering teams by more than 30% – to the point where our engineering velocity is incredible. I can’t believe what we’re achieving in engineering.”

      “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.”

    2. jhharvest on

      As a Salesforce user, I’m not entirely convinced they’ve hired any software engineers since 2015.

    3. breovus on

      Sales Force is about as modern and agile as Windows XP. Their AI is probably the paperclip widget.

    4. w1n5t0nM1k3y on

      Probably because sales force makes the customer provide all the functionality. I have limited experience with salesforce, but it seems like every company has received provide a large amount of functionality themselves through third party add-ons or writing their own code. Its more like a database and programming environment than an actual user facing product.

    5. LusciousJames on

      I’ve seen this posted in multiple places; I don’t believe it’s true. I’m a principal engineer at Salesforce, and I have interviews with candidates on my calendar right now, and I’ve completed a couple over the past two weeks. Doesn’t mean we’ll actually hire the people I’m talking to, but I have not heard any news of a hiring freeze.

    8. BodhingJay on

      I’ve worked on salesforce.. could only tolerate it for 3 months. best of luck to the new AI

    9. EdzyFPS on

      What happens when the current senior engineers all reach retirement age or move on, who is going to replace them when AI inevtiably doesn’t meet expectations?

    12. wtfisrobin on

      i’m sure this will work out super great in the long run and they will not regret this !

    13. Littlebotweak on

      LOL. In other words, in 2026 they’re going to need engineers again for all that tech debt they’re incurring in that horrible monolithic nightmare of a system.

    14. JesusStarbox on

      Remember when people were telling people who were laid off to learn to code? How’s that working out for ya?

    16. Fark_ID on

      Dear Salesforce Employees, Just a reminder to be SURE to use Copilot and all our AI initiatives ~~to help us replace you~~ be the best you can be!

    19. TechnicalBen on

      The job role will be alled “AI Engineer”. It’s bullshit, they’ll hire them, or just “outsource”. They’re just bullshitting.

    20. ChocolateBaconDonuts on

      But will still be trying to get as many H1B visas as they can for some reason…

    21. ambyent on

      Jesus fuck that’s gross. Sales jobs are absolute shit and the pay will be shit. Fuck the service industry that the US has become. I hope this backfires so hard.

    22. S1337artichoke on

      So much negativity about Salesforce, my wife’s company uses it and she is training up in it but with so much negativity is it good to follow on this path up to developer, architect or should I tell her to train in something else?

    23. RMRdesign on

      The best thing about Salesforce is the marketing.

      I absolutely hate being on Salesforce projects. The amount of hoops you have to jump through to make it look to anything the client saw in the marketing materials.