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*Applicable to Gcare GTech Google India Roles If you have some good credentials, and brand names, they may hire you, even if you don’t have a lot of digital marketing experience. Have friends who wonder why were they hired in the first place. Gcare work involves supporting well mature clients and non agency hires struggle to match up to their colleagues who have worked for 6-7 years in ads agencies. While expectations are to brew magic (i.e sell) from the get go, with very little support or handholding or what is kindly called in today’s time as allyship. Work pressure is intense in a few teams. Teammates are too tied up with their work to have spare time to collaborate and support each other. An unsaid unhealthy competition exists due to survival fear or scarce promotion. Seems like some of them brought along the toxic agency culture with them. Maybe that is hindering collaboration. Since they were or are not helped by others, they won’t help anyone else. And as with other Google orgs, the Product Managers are often too busy to provide knowledge support of the products they build, in time. They build products, any client specific solutioning advice is out of bounds. So expect figuring everything out on your own. And as with other Google orgs, expect working with sales and account managers, where the credit is shared and the risk is all yours. Account managers are too lazy and offload their work and unrealistic expectations. Some of them lack efficient planning and cause last minute fire drills. So expect the pressure of higher sales targets and associated pitch and research work falling solely on you. Even though you didn’t sign up for a sales job, it ends up being one. So be ready to devise cunning ways to upsell more and more everyday to each account. Wait wasn’t Google’s motto Don’t be evil? Managers are more like people managers, and some lack the expertise or the leadership to unblock employees, create an efficient framework for managing team operations. Not all of them are Googly. Some of the new hire managers who have joined from media or agency overstep work and personal life boundaries. Not too flexible with job locations and remote work. Be ready to move to Hyderabad. (Although some flexibility has emerged, but still not as flexible as its tech industry peers). Hybrid work - 3 days in office per week is an implicit expectation. Other orgs in Google don’t have a very favourable opinion of the G Tech org. The way out is not easy. Internal mobility to a different Google org is difficult as many people try for it. Externally one can try in similar customer success, professional service roles in 4-5 reputed product firms in this space in India. Industry brand management and digital marketing roles will entail a 25% - 50% paycut on total compensation, and are few in number anyway. Going to an agency after Google probably sounds like a nightmare. Long story short - Look, it’s a great brand to say no to, but do your research, ask these hard questions to hiring team. If you’re getting in easy, there’s a catch.