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I was operating a fairly large AWS operation, and had the idea to at least check with G Cloud if they were interested (usually you get a boatload of free credit
by l33tman 7y ago
I was operating a fairly large AWS operation, and had the idea to at least check with G Cloud if they were interested (usually you get a boatload of free credits to startups).
After 3 emails spread over several months I eventually got a note saying I should expect to talk with my Google Cloud salesguy, but it can only happen over a Hangout. And not any hangout - they sent a cheap ass Android "netbook" that I had to physically go to the post office to get, that the Hangout call was supposed to happen through.
I did get it from the post office, noted that it took minutes to start up, then gave it away and never heard from GC again.
- guitarsteve 7y agoThat’s so strange. Does anyone know why they’d want to chat using special hardware?
- killjoywashere 7y agoBecause he's l33tman, man. l33t.
- l33tman 7y agoHaha exactly! No, I'm sure they could have accepted any Hangouts call or being coerced into accepting a phonecall as well. But truthfully what they wrote in the sendout was like I described - they outlined the procedure to go get the netbook and use it and at no point did they suggest a physical phone number to call or similar. I went along with it as far as I did just because I was kind of baffled by the suggested procedure :) I assume it was part of some marketing scheme to try to market Hangouts and/or Chromebooks (or whatever it was) at the same time as GCP, but it just confused the sale and added unnecessary pain-points. The AWS guys just send an email and let me call them by a normal phone.
- aianus 7y agoI was part of the GCP startup program starting Sep 2018 and just had a normal hangouts call with the GCP sales guy. Your experience sounds nuts.