in a Slack message to employees on Friday that the company's newest workers weren't productive enough.
We will put them on PIP if needed
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Are they making redundancies in Jan or Feb? Global cut or regional focus?
January list has already been made up
Merry Christmas from Salesforce!!
Imagine having "Trust" as a core company value and having the CEO point fingers at new hires for low productivity without the data to back up his accusation.
When Covid sales were booming, SF hopped on the same "Go for Growth" expansion as other tech giants fueled purely by greed. There was little to no thought given to establish new territories/verticals for newcomers to succeed. Yet, here we are with rounds of layoffs and blaming new hires for their lack of success. Go figure.
Marc is warming up the SF staff for further RTO mandates and layoffs with that message.
I too had an extremely bad experience with a VP in enablement at SF. The absolute worst leader I ever had. Gaslighting and narcissistic. The ELT knows this person is a problem and continues to keep them in role. Many are leaving and many will - just a matter of time before this entire organization implodes.
100% agree that SFDC grew to fast and people ended up in leadership positions who should never ever be people managed much less considered leaders. The two most toxic and evil managers of my career were at salesforce. It’s been over 2.5 years since I left and, while I’m in a much better place career wise, I’m still dealing with the mental and physical consequences of working for those awful people. One, fortunately, appears to have gone back to being an IC after 80% of his team left for other jobs; the other got promoted to svp at SFDC before leaving (I hope involuntarily) for another svp role at a much smaller, no-name company. I feel bad for that company … they probably thought they were getting someone awesome when really she’s just foul.
"At the end, a publicly traded corporation is in business to make money and show revenue growth etc…" This is the best structure with good management! Being accountable to shareholders is much better than being accountable to some little dictator's mood swings.
It's just that this place is failing at it! It's like they're doing their damndest to trick shareholders, but leadership exodus + numbers will speak for themselves. This isn't Benioff's doing in my opinion... It's grown too fast! People are in positions they wouldn't be in /only got leadership roles because of massive growth.
It’s interesting to see how companies like Salesforce change their tunes/culture as the business environment evolves
I guess the Ohana concept the CEO created years ago is just a bunch of marketing/cultural campaign at the time to look cool and different from the standard American corporation image.
At the end, a publicly traded corporation is in business to make money and show revenue growth etc…
Metrics have changed drastically for many departments, so attainment is lower despite higher productivity. Not only that, morale suffers with unattainable objectives. When the only way to succeed is lie, cheat, and play tricks, work becomes disengaging... I wouldn't hire the "top" performers in my org. They're good tricksters, not good workers (and management knows this..)
Full of it! It’s called PIP then layoff or no PIP then layoff
He is just preparing the workforce for the massive upcoming layoffs