Salesforce introduces PIP culture

[Moon_Walker]

 

Enterprise

Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople

Ron Miller@ron_miller / 3:42 PM CST•February 14, 2023

Image Credits: Bjorn Bakstad / Getty Images

Salesforce is looking at new ways to cut costs as activist investors continue to put pressure on the company. Today, Insider was reporting that the company is implementing much stricter performance measurements for engineering, with some salespeople being put under pressure to quit or succumb to harsh performance policies of their own. This is consistent with what sources have been telling TechCrunch.

This could include performance reviews based on the quantity of code produced for engineers, a flawed way to measure engineering productivity, which encourages quantity over quality. While salespeople are being put between a rock and a hard place, being asked to choose between signing a strict one-month performance improvement plan or taking an exit package.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/salesforce-yields-to-activist-pressure-with-harsh-new-policies-for-engineers-sales-people/

 

[Rushabhi]

Maa company lo kooda ilanti activist investors keliki penta chesaru. Cut chesthe all it led to was short term stock gains but long term problems of attrition and loss of clients. Maybe Salesforce future kooda adhe

[k2s]

7 minutes ago, Moon_Walker said:

 

 

Enterprise

Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople

Ron Miller@ron_miller / 3:42 PM CST•February 14, 2023

 

Image Credits: Bjorn Bakstad / Getty Images

Salesforce is looking at new ways to cut costs as activist investors continue to put pressure on the company. Today, Insider was reporting that the company is implementing much stricter performance measurements for engineering, with some salespeople being put under pressure to quit or succumb to harsh performance policies of their own. This is consistent with what sources have been telling TechCrunch.

This could include performance reviews based on the quantity of code produced for engineers, a flawed way to measure engineering productivity, which encourages quantity over quality. While salespeople are being put between a rock and a hard place, being asked to choose between signing a strict one-month performance improvement plan or taking an exit package.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/salesforce-yields-to-activist-pressure-with-harsh-new-policies-for-engineers-sales-people/

 

According to Insider and sources that spoke to TechCrunch, Salesforce is introducing stricter performance standards for its engineering team and pressuring salespeople to either resign or accept harsh performance policies. Activist investors have been pushing the company to reduce costs, leading to this move. The new performance measurements for engineers could be based on the amount of code they produce, which is not an accurate measure of engineering productivity and may prioritize quantity over quality. Salespeople are also facing a difficult choice, being given the option to sign a one-month performance improvement plan or take an exit package.

[Moon_Walker]

5 minutes ago, Rushabhi said:

Maa company lo kooda ilanti activist investors keliki penta chesaru. Cut chesthe all it led to was short term stock gains but long term problems of attrition and loss of clients. Maybe Salesforce future kooda adhe

Ya this was supposed to be a great WLB culture company. now everyone will be in rat race.

[tennisluvrredux]

3 minutes ago, Moon_Walker said:

Ya this was supposed to be a great WLB culture company. now everyone will be in rat race.

Eppudo kudisenu

[ramudu]

PIP is going to skyrocket in 2023 , Amazon also forcing managers to put employees on PIP and force them to leave 

 

I was a manager at Amazon. My boss encouraged me to quit after I defended a high-performing employee who was about to get the lowest performance rating.

• An ex-Amazon manager said leadership had to rate a certain number of employees as "least effective."

• He said he defended an employee who senior leaders placed in this category despite performing well.

• Shortly after, the ex-manager learned he was on Pivot, Amazon's performance-improvement program.

 

[hyperbole]

I was working with a Salesforce professional services team, an architect and senior engineer I was working for the last 3 months, in the  weekly call had some new guy from India in the meeting and he was introduced to us, slowly the director revealed this is the guy who will work with us going forward, fast forward 2 weeks that guy has been brought onsite. This tells that they letting go of the poeple here to replace with cheaper salaries 

[manadonga]

39 minutes ago, hyperbole said:

I was working with a Salesforce professional services team, an architect and senior engineer I was working for the last 3 months, in the  weekly call had some new guy from India in the meeting and he was introduced to us, slowly the director revealed this is the guy who will work with us going forward, fast forward 2 weeks that guy has been brought onsite. This tells that they letting go of the poeple here to replace with cheaper salaries 

Salesforce is hiring alot in india. Moving to india so many jobs 

they are high paying company for night shifts per day 1800 shift allowance per day who work in pst hrs from Hyderabad 

[dasari4kntr]

ceo shouldn’t have resigned in first place…next co ceo also resigned with in few days…

next all activists groups like elliot…etc bought the huge stock and imposing their rules…

good for salesforce investors …but pathetic situation for employees…

 

now a days these activism is frequent phenomena… investment banks are developing tools to predict these activists movements… 

[hyperbole]

56 minutes ago, manadonga said:

Salesforce is hiring alot in india. Moving to india so many jobs 

they are high paying company for night shifts per day 1800 shift allowance per day who work in pst hrs from Hyderabad 

1800 is peanuts, their professional services charge us $150/hr for sr engineer role in India, architect ki USA lo $350 and senior engineer ki $200-$250 pay chestunnamu

[dasari4kntr]

salesforce didn’t started…it got influenced…

now industry getting new ideas…

check the twitter id and date and context..

 

[ramudu]

15 minutes ago, dasari4kntr said:

salesforce didn’t started…it got influenced…

now industry getting new ideas…

check the twitter id and date and context..

 

this question asked by many people , I am sure many tech companies senior managers thinking -- When Twitter can work with 30-40% work force after layoff 60-70% people , without any issues and adding new features , what stopping us ? Musk mawa magicu 

[dasari4kntr]

4 minutes ago, ramudu said:

this question asked by many people , I am sure many tech companies senior managers thinking -- When Twitter can work with 30-40% work force after layoff 60-70% people , without any issues and adding new features , what stopping us ? Musk mawa magicu 

@csrcsr చెప్పినట్టు bad days ahead…

[ramudu]

Just now, dasari4kntr said:

@csrcsr చెప్పనట్టు bad days ahead…

veediki thodu automation okati , monitoring teams ni motham inida lo setup chesukoni , development slowdown chesthy , chala companies oka 20% ni easy gaa lepeyachu 

[dasari4kntr]

1 minute ago, ramudu said:

veediki thodu automation okati , monitoring teams ni motham inida lo setup chesukoni , development slowdown chesthy , chala companies oka 20% ni easy gaa lepeyachu 

previously developers and operators are two roles and two jobs…now devops…single setup automation…

previously developer and tester are two separate jobs…now with the help of selenium or cypress…etc developers can do that testing also…

previously we have ui developer and backend developer (two jobs)…now we have full stack developer…(one job)…

previously to develop a phone app..we need swift developers and android developer…(two jobs)..now we have react native or flutter…etc which works in both almost as same as native …again one job…

 

we are not realizing the power of automation…int his field we should be updating every day like an app getting updates…no rest..