“"We're not going to hire any new engineers this year. We're seeing a 30% productivity increase on engineering, and we're going to really continue to ride that up."”

Marc Benioff CEO

Chair and CEO, Salesforce

Said Feb 26, 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2025Salesforce Q4 FY25 earnings call, 26 February 2025 (reported by The San Francisco Standard and The Register, 27 Feb 2025)

Salesforce held engineering headcount flat through 2025: Benioff said in May 2026 that the engineering organization had been stuck at roughly 15,000 people for about two years, and contemporaneous coverage (Fortune, WION) reported the company stopped hiring software engineers in 2025 while expanding sales by ~2,000 reps. The 30% productivity figure remains a self-reported, unauditable number, but the operative promise — no net new engineering hires in 2025 — held.