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Salesforce to cut staff by 10%, close some offices (reuters.com)
32 points by __michaelg 1256 days ago
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> "As our revenue accelerated through the pandemic, we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we're now facing, and I take responsibility for that."

Another CEO taking the blame.

Lets be real. Salesforce just isn't a great product...atleast from a marketing technologist point of view. Or the product has not evolved?

What does “taking responsibility” actually mean though? Is the CEO actually receiving any consequences?
> Another CEO taking the blame.

No, Marc Benioff is marketing the blame. If he were to take the blame, he'd relinquish his position as CEO.

From a developer perspective, trying migrate a behemoth of a salesforce instance to their new tooling (Salesforce DX) in order to introduce version control and pipeline checks has been an absolutely horrible experience.
5 months of severance is pretty amazing.