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by ethbr1
26 days ago
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(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 |
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