Sounds like it wasn’t well received internally. doesn’t sound like this guy is googley at all🙄 Did Diane announces her own departure instead of Sundhar? Curious who the shortlist of candidates were to lead into this decision. Not sure this moves the company forward with the recent revelations In the NYT article.... these Quora and Blind threads aren’t help paint an optimistic picture.
That Googley requirement is only for the working class. Executive class has its filtering system. He is done a good job at Oracle so not sure why the complain.
Wonder what the interview was like.
Lots of head shaking
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But did they whiteboard him?
Of course no!! All the senior management of Google and Alphabet are morons!! Why would they do due diligence before hiring CEO of a large part of company ? Get the first Indian guy available. Doing interviews and diligence does not makes any sense at all when you are looking for CEO of multi billion dollar initiative. On serious note, Enterprise is a different business all together. Long boring sales cycles, credentials check, ability to match customers needs rather than selling the coolest thing. Many a times customers call for downgrading offerings because they have legacy systems. Pure Engineering answer is simply to say fuck off to such customers. But this would not make you big in enterprise world. Looking at TKs credentials , he has solid background and delivered results. He wanted to take Oracle on public clouds which led to his conflict with Larry Elison, and this shows right mindset as well as his ability to believe in his stand. I personally believe he is right kind of guy to drive the Cloud business. But the question I am asking myself is “Would I be able to work if things become too Enterprisey”. And I know many of us are asking the same. Alas, only time will tell.
He comes from the same village Sundar Pichai comes from - what better vetting would you ever need? lol I can’t wait for the gang to ruin the big G!!!
Wait for further indianization of Ggl cloud workforce. Non- Indians, start your jobsearch.
And, to state the obvious, much micro-management you shall see....
Selling my Google stock now....TK is a corporate drain. Watch what happens...
Lol you non-googlers are more concerned than us googlers :)
And that's pretty concerning.... 😛
People just care about their TC. If the ship sinks, they can find another.