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by ethbr1 26 days ago
(I'll take the charitable read and assume you meant an implied poorly trained, low cost Indian support as the descriptor)

Google does and always has treated support as a cost center, rather than a feature or profit center.

This worked for them in the early days and for specific products like Search -- design it well enough and you don't need support*.

Unfortunately, this fails for most other products (and especially all enterprise products) because the magnitude of impacts to a single customer (business instead of user) are so much greater.

F.ex. every conversation I was on with a GCP product team had a weird "Oh, you don't know how anyone who pays for GCP uses it, because you get it for free internally?" flavor.

* Leaving aside the "there's an entire SEO industry to 'support' Search" thing