As AI Slashes White-Collar Jobs, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says Almost No One Is Being Hired—Except in Sales
Marc Benioff said Salesforce’s head count is growing mostly in sales as AI agents handle support work and engineers stay flat at about 15,000.
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As AI slashes white-collar jobs, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says almost no one is being hired—except in sales
Legions of students pursued engineering in college in hopes of hitting the hiring market as a hot commodity. But now, their prospects are falling flat among some major employers. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently revealed that the $145 billion cloud-based platform is keeping its engineering headcount unchanged as AI generates bounds of productivity. And the recruitment freeze extends to many layers across the tech giant—except for sales. “We’…
Marc Benioff said Salesforce is still hiring more in one department, and it's not in engineering
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI can now read Slack chats in the workplace to identify what employees are upset about.Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMarc Benioff said his company's engineering headcount has "been mostly flat" over the past two years.Benioff said the company is still growing its headcount, but in the sales department.Benioff said that AI agents fall short in selling and communicating.The hottest new hires are no …
The most sought-after candidates are no longer engineers—at least not at Salesforce. During the tech giant's quarterly earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff stated that the company's engineering staff has remained virtually unchanged over the past two years, at 15,000 people. The reason for this is due to "new AI coding agents" that are demonstrating phenomenal capabilities.
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