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These sorts of deals have whole teams attached to them. If you're buying nearly a billion dollars in Google products, Google has hired people specifically to wo
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
These sorts of deals have whole teams attached to them. If you're buying nearly a billion dollars in Google products, Google has hired people specifically to work the TikTok account.
The biggest thing I wonder when these sorts of "probably C* level" deals is how often they get negotiated for political and/or marketing reasons, and then are just handed down to staff to figure out how to make them work. I've definitely seen major shifts in third party products selected long before anyone on the tech side gets involved to find out what the implementation is going to look like. Sometimes by the time you get IT involved, it's too late and way too high level to put the brakes on something if it isn't as ideal as promised.
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- scarface74 6y agoHeck I was the dev lead at a medium size non tech company ($1 billion revenue) and I didn’t find out they had to decided to “move to the cloud” until all of the decisions were made. Of course, the company’s idea of “moving to the cloud” was a “lift and shift” and still having to go through the same procurement process as if we were on prem just to get some EC2 instances provisioned and not taking advantage of any AWS services. I didn’t realize how dumb that was until it was too late. By the time I learned anything about AWS, the infrastructure gatekeepers had taken over.