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Well said. As someone who has worked with Google consultants throughout his career, I always felt they were overpaid for the value they brought to the table. A
by neya 2y ago
Well said. As someone who has worked with Google consultants throughout his career, I always felt they were overpaid for the value they brought to the table. A few years ago, one of my clients wanted some advice on what Google Cloud products to migrate to their high traffic website while keeping costs at check. Our backend systems were fully SQL based. We may have met 3 consultants from their HQ at least and none of them even had any idea on a) the offerings that were available and b) which product should be used when. One of their consultants just kept throwing product names at us hoping it would stick, but it got really bad when he recommended a very expensive NOSQL offering for our completely SQL backend. We both walked out of the meeting mid-way after being annoyed with them.
Their lifestyle is quite luxurious - you can roam around their entire campus without being asked questions, there's gaming rooms and places where you can take a nap at work and half the time people were barely at their desks doing their actual jobs. I always thought this was also one of the reasons why many clients started moving off their platforms (apart from also becoming more expensive over the years) to the point where Google is almost considered a laggard now in the AI space.
- ZuckMusk 2y agoCan you share there years of experience and alma mater (If you don't mind)
- neya 2y agoOne of them had over 3 years in the cloud space alone. The other two probably close to 5 years. All of them were from the top 3 universities in the country. I guess it had to do with the forced quota system. In big companies, there is a need to mandatorily fill their positions with x percent of locals. Sometimes, it is not a good thing.