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Their abysmal user support is the number one complaint. How the f*ck didn't they wake up to this issue by now.

I think they are in dire need of a leadership change. If they want to serve businesses, they need to adopt actual business practices.



Support doesn’t scale so Google doesn’t want to do it out of greed and immaturity.


If any given user needs x support hours a week, and their business pays for > x support hours a week, then support scales.

I guess as you scale up a business you want to get leaner and you accept lower margins, hoping to make it back by volume? Maybe that's what you mean?


I assume he/she meant scale == grows (mostly independently) of human hours. Support can never scale; only fixing your software so that it doesn't trigger support needs scales.

Otherwise, each support request linearly requires human time.


> meant scale == grows (mostly independently) of human hours.

This is a pernicious usage of "scale" that has crept into tech-speak, because it makes the term strictly less useful.




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