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Headcount up 21% in 1 year. Can we get a breakdown of which roles they are in? Or which cities/countries?
by acchow 7y ago
Headcount up 21% in 1 year. Can we get a breakdown of which roles they are in? Or which cities/countries?
- high_derivative 7y agoFrom what I read, cloud is massively expanding headcount in sales, marketing, and support.
- panpanna 7y agoSupport? Are we still talking about Google?
- skybrian 7y agoYes, businesses paying the big bucks tend to get a different level of service than consumers using stuff for free.
- jvagner 7y agoEven me and my 2 count G Suite account gets support.
- pkaye 7y agoThey are actually pretty good for services/products you pay money for. I had some Google Home/Nest Thermostat integration issues recently and was super impressed with their tech support people.
- GordonS 7y ago> They are actually pretty good for services/products you pay money for As long as it's not AdWords. I've used it for something like a decade, and the support was and is, crap. Indeed, if you somehow manage to speak to an actual person, all they do is try to adjust your account so you'll spend more.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoRuth Porat states in the call the majority are engineers and product managers. Though that doesn't tell you much about where they're at or what they're working on.
- dudus 7y agoI thought I heard her saying it was mostly on R&D and Sales and Marketing. Which doesn't tell you much I guess.
- trhway 7y ago20% headcount growth in year happens regularly for Google like in 2010, 2011-13, 2016 and 15% seems to be lower bound: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-time-google-employees/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti... And from their jobs postings, people around, etc. it seems they are just beefing up the org as usual plus some active moves in the "strategic" orgs like cloud, etc.
- ndesaulniers 7y agoMoving protobufs.
- alexeldeib 7y agoNot the first time I've heard this joke. Is this a real task commonly done on teams at Google? Is it due to monorepo particulars?
- skybrian 7y agoIt's because Google has lots of internal services (sorta like microservices) and that's how services communicate with their neighbors. In some cases, persistent data is in protobufs too. The point is probably doing some kind of storage, calculation, or aggregation of data, but "moving protobufs" sounds funnier.
- Stratoscope 7y agoIt is so true that it even has its own T-shirt! https://www.google.com/search?q=larry+sergey+protobuf+moving&tbm=isch#imgrc=YZTgAKFqfPZdCM https://www.google.com/search?q=larry+sergey+protobuf+moving...: It's not really because of the monrepo. Think about how many jobs outside Google involve moving JSON data around (and manipulating and transforming it). At an Alphabet company, that work would likely use protobufs instead of JSON.
- qroshan 7y agoAt the end of the day, all software engineers are moving, transforming and persisting bits. Languages abstract bits to types. But, there is no universal langauge for storage, retreival, front-end rendering and middle-layer logic, so engineers have to fall back to sort of thinking in bits again as they interact with various systems. Protos are Google's fairly successful attempt at raising the abstraction level to object / document so that programmers can store, retrieve, transform objects at all layers.
- tehlike 7y agoSenior staff protobuf engineer