Comment by roughly
8 months ago
> This is so obviously "enterprise software 101" that it is telling Google is operating in 2024 without it.
My impression of GCP generally is that they've got some very smart people working on some very impressive advanced features and all the standard boring stuff nobody wants to do is done to the absolute bare minimum required to check the spec sheet. For all its bizarre modern enterprise-ness, I don't think Google ever really grew out of its early academic lab habits.
I know a bunch of way-too-smart PHD types that worked at GOOG exclusively in R&D roles that they bragged to me earnestly was not revenue generating.
It makes sense for companies to have 1-10% of resources allocated for that. At Google scale that is thousands of people.
What if it's a lot more than 1-10% at GOOG?
Why haven't I met anyone who proudly works on revenue generating product at GOOG compared to the several R&Ders I know from different social circles?
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