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I get the costs of engineering, but there's these sort semi antagonistic "yo we're not hiring software engineers" announcements that are weird.

I don't ever see someone say "we're not hiring anymore customer support" or HR, or janitorial staff, or middle management.

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I don't think a lot of HN users understand corporate speak.

When they announce they aren't hiring any more software engineers they are basically telling its own engineers to leave now or face cost cutting measures.

If you work at Salesforce, I would start putting out resumes now. The play seems to be to use the narrative "agents replaced our engineers, we cut %X of our team" as both a sales pitch and excuse for poor deliverables.

I don't doubt that's the intent, sometimes, but hiring freezes happen lots of places and they don't mean that thing.

It's not antagonistic to shareholders/investors who thought Salesforce was bloated before.

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