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googles sales are pretty low touch - I guess that is out of need to massively scale (just ask anyone who has tried to contact a human there !), so having a larg

googles sales are pretty low touch - I guess that is out of need to massively scale (just ask anyone who has tried to contact a human there !), so having a large sales force doesn't really make sense for them. I guess this is using the "cover" of a great recession to do this, although the fact that they talked about it on a blog kind of means its not really a case of timing. It does sound like the don't just want to turf these people out but are going to try to find them something else to do, where possible.

sgoraya 18y ago
googles sales are pretty low touch For the most part- Except for enterprise sales that includes their search appliances, apps and gMaps API's. The sales folks were pretty top notch and always got me the info I requested in a timely manner. Plus you get a phone number that will get you to a real, live, breathing human. Really! :) Though, IMO, laying off 200 folks globally is not that huge considering their total head count. (I say this loosely as those affected certainly are not happy about losing their jobs)