Other posters seem to have concerns about google siphoning data from this product. I wouldn’t be especially worried about that.
A much bigger concern for me would be that this product is not and will never be core to google’s business. Will it be around a year from now? Will be around but utterly neglected as whatever opaque process inside google causes it to lose interest in yet another project?
I’d rather buy recruiting software from a company in the recruiting software business.
> If they're dogfooding it's much less likely they'll cancel it
I think it's just as likely. Another team will create a different product doing the same thing in a different way and they will now dogfood that new one.
Which is a bit weird because the main buyer of G Suite is a CIO, and presumably its Finance/Payroll/HR making the final decision on the hiring software.
I have always thought that Google generally siphons data from the product and once they have enough of the data that they need then the project they shut it down.
>* I have always thought that Google generally siphons data from the product and once they have enough of the data that they need then the project they shut it down. *
Or if the tool competes with another. I think Reader was killed mainly because it competed with Google Plus.
In general, I've noticed many sites now lack RSS feeds - probably because it's better to have users perpetually engaged than give a definitive list of articles that can be read in 1 go.
A much bigger concern for me would be that this product is not and will never be core to google’s business. Will it be around a year from now? Will be around but utterly neglected as whatever opaque process inside google causes it to lose interest in yet another project?
I’d rather buy recruiting software from a company in the recruiting software business.