Salesforce and Slack hiring freeze for tech/product roles
Salesforce will pause all hiring in technology and product divisions, including in its chat subsidiary Slack, according to a message from Ross Harmes, chief of staff to the Slack CTO, seen by Fortune. “This isn’t our first rodeo with hiring pauses, but it’s definitely disruptive and will affect our plans in Q1 and beyond,” Harmes wrote. “Remember, we won’t ask you to do the same amount of work with fewer people, so adjust plans accordingly.” While Salesforce had a hiring freeze last year from October 2022 to January 2023, this hiring freeze doesn’t have an anticipated end date, according to the memo. The freeze will be lifted “based on how the numbers are looking each quarter, I would assume at least a quarter,” Harmes wrote. All written and verbal offers already out will be honored, the memo added. “Headcount that you currently have isn’t going away, it’s just being delayed,” Harmes wrote. “We’ll maintain the list of open roles, and continue to add to it when people leave.” Layoffs and pauses seem to be making an unfortunate comeback in the new year. The announcement of Salesforce and Slack’s hiring pause coincides with significant reductions in Amazon’s Twitch and Prime Video divisions, where there are plans for a 35% reduction in staff and several hundred cuts, respectively. There’s also Humane, the AI pin startup which raised over $200 million and plans to ship it’s new hardware in the coming months, which laid off 4 percent of employees this week in a cost-cutting measure. “The good news is that we’ve made a ton of hires over the last six months. The bad news is that managers with open roles will feel the pain for a while with understaffed teams,” Harmes wrote. https://fortune.com/2024/01/10/salesforce-slack-pause-hiring-product-tech-leaked-memo/ #hiringfreeze #eng #engineer #engineering #product #tech #salesforce #slack #tech
In other words theyre moving to bangladesh next quarter
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Awfully ran company. Over hire people and promise the moon, talk about how great it is to work at Salesforce. Pause hiring. Layoff thousands. Repeat.
Build a fancy tower during good times. Kick people off it in bad times. Honestly I respect Amazon more for its consistent stinginess.
The only good saving grace that Salesforce has its CTO - Srini.
So much for hiring like crazy in India the last few months
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So fickle
WTF, I applied this morning. Oh well, didn't necessarily want the job anyway.
These tech companies are so bad at budgeting. Laid off 10 percent then hired more and going down same path. Huge waste of team and manager time to train, layoff, retrain and layoff again.
Honestly thinking of leaving tech. Freaking crazy that catching a bad break can result in you interviewing and moving half the year.
Is there an alternative? Get paid 🥜 and be subject to the same uncertainty in other industries?