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’re not hiring more engineers, we’re not hiring more GA [general and administrative roles], we’re mostly expanding only in one area,” Benioff recently said during a quarterly earnings call this Wednesday, adding that the company is “mostly growing in Miguel’s area: in sales.”
