Cloudflare CEO: few engineers or customer-facing sales people laid off

Full quote: "Some truth to that. There’s a whole bunch of back office you needed to be public which AI has made a lot more streamlined. Very few engineers or customer-facing sales people impacted by our layoff. And we’ll continue to hire like crazy in those roles — like we did as a startup."

More quotes by him in other comments too:

[1] "Roles are being cut. Whole functions. Who will survive and thrive are anyone who’s building the product to be sold, or anyone who’s selling the product. We and others will hire everyone good we can find for those roles."

[2] "We’ll still be on a roll hiring. Just shifts to focusing on people who either build or sell products. Fewer roles needed to act as scaffolding supporting those functions"

[3] "Agree! Hence we laid off very few software engineers. Very few customer-facing sales people either. But if you don’t think AI changes how SalesOps, for instance, will be done going forward then it probably means you don’t know what SalesOps is."

[4] "We’ll still be hiring at a rapid pace. This isn’t about cutting headcount. It’s about shifting what roles we need. More people building and selling product. Less providing back office functions to support them."

[5] "We’re not slowing down hiring. We’re just shifting for what roles we’re hiring. This isn’t about cutting staff, it’s about changing what roles we need."

[1]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052598611679097040#m [2]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052559855274144039#m [3]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052560831909433554#m [4]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052557234182172932#m [5]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052557696650428882#m [6]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052561977080205637#m

Curious what you all think of this, or if this matches what you're hearing/seeing out there? From public forums it seems like quite a few engineering roles were impacted.