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Other posters seem to have concerns about google siphoning data from this product. I wouldn’t be especially worried about that. A much bigger concern for me wo
by bradleyjg 8y ago
Other posters seem to have concerns about google siphoning data from this product. I wouldn’t be especially worried about that.
A much bigger concern for me would be that this product is not and will never be core to google’s business. Will it be around a year from now? Will be around but utterly neglected as whatever opaque process inside google causes it to lose interest in yet another project?
I’d rather buy recruiting software from a company in the recruiting software business.
- gowld 8y agoThis looks like a bonus freebie for gsuite users who up til now didn't care to use any applicant tracking service.
- metafizikal 8y agoWhich is a bit weird because the main buyer of G Suite is a CIO, and presumably its Finance/Payroll/HR making the final decision on the hiring software.
- zitterbewegung 8y agoI have always thought that Google generally siphons data from the product and once they have enough of the data that they need then the project they shut it down.
- clubm8 8y ago>* I have always thought that Google generally siphons data from the product and once they have enough of the data that they need then the project they shut it down. * Or if the tool competes with another. I think Reader was killed mainly because it competed with Google Plus. In general, I've noticed many sites now lack RSS feeds - probably because it's better to have users perpetually engaged than give a definitive list of articles that can be read in 1 go.
- icebraining 8y agoI don't remember a time when many sites didn't lack RSS feeds.
- clubm8 8y ago>A much bigger concern for me would be that this product is not and will never be core to google’s business. I think it depends. Is this an internal tool they decided to monetize? If they're dogfooding it's much less likely they'll cancel it
- jobigoud 8y ago> If they're dogfooding it's much less likely they'll cancel it I think it's just as likely. Another team will create a different product doing the same thing in a different way and they will now dogfood that new one.
- mygo 8y ago.... umm, no. If anything they will just change it up and disappoint people who liked it just the way it was. As they are doing with GMail. They did create “Inbox” to do the same thing as GMail (email) in a different way... But they’re killing Inbox and just making changes to GMail.
- dhimes 8y ago...which kind of pisses me off because I use Inbox.
- gomox 8y agoGoogle most certainly does not use this extremely SMB tool to recruit and hire for themselves at any relevant scale.
- j45 8y agoHiring employees efficiently is likely a part of Google's core business and practice.