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I've since left, but when I joined Google in 2018 one of the things they talked about excitedly at the orientation was how GCP was poised to be successful with
by Arcuru 4y ago
I've since left, but when I joined Google in 2018 one of the things they talked about excitedly at the orientation was how GCP was poised to be successful with enterprise. I may be misremembering some of the details, but they explained they had just hired a woman from Oracle(?) into a VP role for GCP who explained to them how an enterprise sales funnel worked, so now they were beefing up their sales team and GCP would finally get some real traction in enterprise.
It didn't _seem_ like they were being sarcastic, but they for some reason were claiming that the management team didn't understand how enterprise sales worked after a decade of trying to sell GCP, and were saying that like it was a good thing.
- nocommandline 4y agoNot a woman. They hired Thomas Kurian from Oracle [1] 1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kurian-469b6219 https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kurian-469b6219
- deanCommie 4y agoThere are so many juicy morsels from that story. For example, embedded in the entire concept is the unwavering belief that Googlers has that their stuff is just by definition BETTER. I don't know if this is part of the orientation or the culture, or just the kinds of people that the Google hiring process is optimized for (the absolutely most insufferable software engineers i know wind up at Google), or just a lot of kool-aid drinking from the cloud department, but they clearly believe that the only reason they're not winning is sales. Not that they didn't build as good a product. Not that AWS or Azure just might be better at anything.
- kag0 4y agoit can be good / a relief to find out you've been doing it wrong the whole time, because it means that now you can do it right and you may yet reach your objective