The focus on 25-30% year over year growth requires that Salesforce maintain a culture of high energy and hype - and, too be fair, much of it well deserved. But, in recent years, that same bluster permeates internally creating a more political (and I... —  read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/lawsuit-claims-salesforce-worked-with-s-x-trafficking-site-backpage.html 50 women sue Salesforce, claiming it helped Backpage in s-x trafficking The lawsuit paints a dark picture of Salesforce, which has long touted... —  read more 

Heard he's on his way out heading over to run Block Center.

I believe this was a semi-planned layoff of mainly QA folks who were given roughly 1 year notice to re-train and apply for development positions. Some did so. I don't think all managers did an effective job of enabling people to do so however. I had... —  read more 

They laid off 89 people from QA in Indianapolis. Very bad

I know that this sounds like a broken record (cliché, but a good one)…. Rumors - some folks are talking about possibly having layoffs in San Francisco.

I left a few years back right now - but still have good friend over there working, happily - now I am hearing that you may have job cuts in San Francisco.

This sounds very much like the Microsoft layoff incident July 2014. It is clear by looking at the latest job posting from Salesforce that they are looking for engineers who can test software as well. Microsoft laid off many quality engineers, perhaps... —  read more 

We cut roughly 200 people last year, we did not blink here. 2014 will be an interesting year, I expect us to go and grow this year. Many CRM outfits are struggling but I hear our sales numbers and I can tell you that salesforce.com is the leader with... —  read more 

No layoffs so far, nobody can tell you what will happen in 2014 but all things are looking good right now, we are making ton of money and the whole CRM sector seems to be pretty good so far.