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As AI slashes white-collar jobs, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says almost no one is being hired—except in sales
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Key facts
- 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
- As of early 2025, the number of job postings for software engineers—the most common tech job title—decreased by 49% since early 2020 levels, according to a Indeed Hiring Lab analysis
- And Benioff picked up on their value years ago; in 2024, the Salesforce CEO announced that the company planned to hire 2,000 new sales employees to take on the increased demand of its AI tools
- Benioff noted that the number of engineers at Salesforce has stagnated for around two years, holding steady at around 15,000 staffers; last year, the CEO even announced the company would not hire any
Summary
“We’re not hiring more engineers, we’re not hiring more GA , 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.” Benioff noted that the number of engineers at Salesforce has stagnated for around two years, holding steady at around 15,000 staffers; last year, the CEO even announced the company would not hire any more engineers in 2025 due to AI gains. Talent that has the savvy to sell the company’s products—ranging from customer clouds and AI agents to Slack —is at the forefront of the business’ hiring agenda. “I think we all realize the one thing that we are doing here with you—selling and communicating—that agents are not exactly doing that,” Benioff said.