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A comment on Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees at Docusign?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees ... by subsubzero on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:18PM (#33013408)
I feel like both sides think this,

Engineer - Our company is so good word of mouth should be enough to bring in sales, if we need any more lets look to AI for a solution.

Sales - We bring in the money, all engineers do is cost the company money, we could probably run the app/develop the product on a skeleton crew, can't wait for AI to make those jobs obsolete!

Truth - Both engineers and sales are hugely successful to any companies strategy and AI isn't taking anyone's(engineer or sales) jobs not for a long time :)

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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees ... by 23B1 on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @05:57PM (#33013789)
As a sales guy, I can assure you we value the development of good product over all else. It makes our jobs a hundred times easier.
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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees ... by lazyasciiart on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @07:26PM (#33014496)
Yea, but at most companies that doesn’t mean valuing all the devs ;)
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Re:Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees ... by calvinmorrison on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:17PM (#33013970)
Some boring business book:

Successful businesses must have 3 Successful divisions: good product, good sales and good finance/admin.

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