GCP Leadership
I cleared Google HC this week and my recruiter is from the GCP org. From linkedin browsing the biggest difference I found between gcp and the rest of google is not the engineering quality but its the management, where in other orgs the Senior Mangers/Dieectors were engineers who worked at google and got promoted that is not true for gcp so they are bringing outside culture. How much has this affected the culture at google?? For some of my team calls I felt that though the work was exciting my managers were relatively intense which is pretty unlike Google.
So far, GCP commercial leadership has been rather weak, and that is putting it gently. Mkayboomer’s point about needs of enterprise customers and implications for the org culture of the cloud provider are spot on. Glad they have recently imported a lot senior leaders from other enterprise sale companies... at this stage, either gcp leadership will get their shit together or the risk of becoming irrelevant. In a recent discussion with hotshot at AWS, he made an interesting point... “we do not consider gcp a serious competitor anymore” As to your point about fun in working in Engr lead org with b2c focus, yes, who does not like lax deadlines 😜
GCP needs an enterprise culture, while Google has been historically mostly focused on engineering/consumer culture. It is ok for me to delay a consumer related delivery if I believe we can improve on the engineering side (ship only when it is really good). Enterprises don’t like that. They need to plan ahead, they need to have roadmaps, and they need to make sure you will honor them. So timing is way more important for GCP than for most other Google products.
Thats an interesting and a valid point but as an engineer it is still more fun to work on eng/consumer culture.
You’re spot on. As an aside: Funny how exactly that behavior in enterprise then gets frowned upon because customers more and more expect rapid-paced, regular delivery as well without taking into consideration that there’s at least a change mgt process on their side, too - and more.