The way layoffs are managed is very bad. It seems to me that some very good employees were laid off, while brown-nosers survived.
This company is very effectively acting against itself, isn't it?
What kind of message does it send to those who remain here?
That the most important thing here is to be a brown-noser?
Shame on them for recklessly managing these layoffs and digging this company into a deeper ho-e.
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I left Salesforce last year, for a better job elsewhere, but a lot of it had to do with what you describe. I worked pre-sales and the level of toxicity in some of the sales teams was egregious. I knew of some people who had many, many HR meetings about harassment and general poor behavior but they hit their quotas so they are still plugging along.
I left SFDC a couple years ago after having been treated very badly by my manager & his manager. (Even ES/HR was like 'Whoa; wtf' so not snowflaking here.) I really wanted to enjoy some good old fashioned schadenfreude regarding the layoffs, hoping to see a bunch of jerks (including my manager) moved along.
Sadly, it's just a long list of folks who focused on working hard and delivering good results for customers vs kissing stinker.
Former manager... definitely NOT a good human (a la mulesoft). Still there. Other shysters? Still there.
Politics is what wins in the corporate world these days, people. Not what you actually accomplish.
Plus side for me... I have my own biz these days that is growing, and SFDC just put a lot of good people on the market for me to recruit.
Insert company name here same story. They love you when money pouring from the sky to build an empire, Then it is inevitable at some point someone finds the books displaying reality and bye bye. The only metric used by the angel of death is how much does that head cost. There is a magic line that keeps moving down until the cumulative opex number is reached and they hit the execute button. Your usefulness has expired. Now take that ego down a few notches to reality and you will be fine.
That is how it works at SF. Get used to it to keep your job. Politics beats hard work and talent every single time.