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Little thing I noticed while hunting for a tech job in America (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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It seems like there's a lot of Salesforce consulting jobs being posted now.

So from that, my inference is that companies be shopping, while laying off workers

Fuck this shithole country I hope it collapses

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was layoffs for salesforce consultants recently. Digital marketing was very in demand during the pandemic, so salesforce consultants were overhired a bit, there was an overcorrection with the layoffs, and probably a correction to that.

VERY RATIONAL SYSTEM.

Also, why I do not trust management's estimates on how much jobs AI is displacing. You motherfuckers could not accurately account for how large of a workforce you needed before, during, or after covid, no way you can account for other external factors fuck off.

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah this was my impression as well, I know someone who was a salesforce consultant and got laid off like 2022ish iirc? I think the whole company was downsizing

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Oh no we overhired!" Aka "We have too many people here that we're paying high wages to. Time to fire them and hire new people at much lower pay porky-happy "

[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

America delenda est.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All companies have done since the advent of neoliberalism is stock buybacks, CEO pay packages, bleed people, each hot chip and lie

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Real, finance capitalist won and killed us

[–] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I fucking hate Salesforce. Why is every "innovation" just a slick manager-impressing GUI slapped on the same database software, just hosted on someone else's server?

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's more abstracting away costs to trick people into unrealistic cost-savings expectations than the UI. For some reason telling execs they can replace their 2 expensive enterprise architects, and 3 data analysts, and mumbling under your breath "for the low low cost of 10 times their salary" always works.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Having worked with Salesforce I can write better software myself

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I've had to work with data my colleague pulled from Salesforce. And the one thing I remember was that the output files were inconsistent week to week, like data types and file encodings would randomly change on you. Absolutely baffling considering it's from the main product of one of the largest software firms on earth.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

I bet they have a monolith repo with 50 dev teams churning on it so shit is just never stable lol

[–] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Makes sense. I'm just a guy inputting data into the garbage database, so I'm unaware of what the actual sales pitch is.

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you want to be a salesforce engineer? i think my company is hiring lol

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

Sure, DM me details. Might not be qualified but I'll apply!

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah seeing it too