Salesforce Inc. is hiring 3,300 people across departments, marking a new investment after it eliminated 10% of its workforce in a restructuring earlier this year.
“Our job is to grow the company and to continue to achieve great margins,” Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff said Thursday in an interview at the company’s annual conference in San Francisco. “We know we have to hire thousands of people.”
The pool of new hires will be roughly equally split among sales, engineering, and those working on the company’s data cloud product, Chief Operating Officer Brian Millham said. “We have some very successful parts of our business right now, and we want a surge in those areas.”
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