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Salesforce Will Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025, Says Marc Benioff (www.salesforceben.com)
submitted 11 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

lol, one of our suppliers just changed to them 1.5 years ago.

Someone managed to fuck the portal software up so much that all the ö you type in a support case get replaced by o, both in the webview and the emails. The ä and ü work fine. It's extra fucked.

And our support team sits in Germany, we write in German sometimes. When we use English it is only for the benefit of their Tier 3 guys.

Plus the implementation of two factor sign in is now delayed by half a year already. It seems to me more developers could be helpful

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

They don’t want to ruin their reputation by having functional software.

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

Well, good luck!

I can't wait for the AI bubble to burst. It's going to be hilarious to see these kinds of CEOs falling flat on their faces. Unfortunately, it will not be the CEOs who will suffer the most from the consequences.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The funny thing is it's easier to replace salespeople with AI than developers. They should be losing salespeople first!

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

No man, sales people are far more important to the bottom line. Profits first, then working product in the future. It's genius, no way that model could go wrong

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s not about business optimization, it’s about not having to defer to someone’s knowledge from the position of power.

AI bubble makes so much sense when you start looking at it this way.

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I think it's just that MBA types see engineering and support as costing money and sales as making money.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I hope it bursts soon. It’s not creating any hiring activity, which is what we little people in the industry need. But it is disruptively shifting things around and stealing funding from everything else as companies panic to put forth some kind of trash so they aren’t seen as being “behind.”

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago

Reality is, they will just rebrand employees.

You're not a developer anymore, but a customer satisfaction consultant. Same job as before, but technically not a developer!!

Also, this is a great way to reduce headcount while seeming innovative to the market ghouls.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Awesome. Salesforce has always been shitty. I wonder how much this will accelerate their decline.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ll save you a click: AI bullshit.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago

As of Salesforce didn't suck enough as is

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Headline in six months: Salesforce Hires Software Engineers After Realizing Middle Managers Don't Know How To Turn AI-Generated Code Into Actual Applications

Being a software engineer is a hell of a lot more than just the actual act of writing code.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Salesforce

I wish you the worst of luck, you are an awful company that makes finnicky garbage software. In my many years as an IT professional, I have never, at any point, heard anyone say anything positive about Salesforce, ever.

[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

^expensive ^finicky ^garbage

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 1 points 11 months ago

I'm a Salesforce admin. On a personal level I like it because it's kind of a mess and I can spend time on random crap. That's not to say that I think it's GOOD.

Last week I had some issue and decided to give Agentforce a chance before opening a case. It rephrased a standard help page I had already read. I rephrased my question with more detail. It rephrased the same help page again. I opened a case.

Turns out what I was seeing was a known issue. Support gave me a link to the page and a fix was already pending. So the bot that they are using for case deflection doesn't appear to search known issues at all. If you're trying to get everyone to buy into a product, your implementation of it should be strikingly good at what it's supposed to do.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For those who are not in the know, the cancer of software as a service was pioneered by salesforce. The devil has created a new circle in hell where salesforce employees are sent not to compete with actual demons because even in hell there are unions.

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 11 months ago

I always thought the abomination that is SaaS came from Adobe

[–] Vipsu@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe some dude in his mothers basement will use A.I to develop a good replacement for salesforce.