Hello from Google’s Ann Arbor Call Center

I’ll be fearlessly candid and say that it continues to be a source of intense frustration for me, as a member of Ann Arbor’s tech community, that Google’s Ann Arbor office is, to all appearances, solely a Google Adwords “call center.” I’m sure they use email a lot more than the phone, but the basic concept, and the basic nature of the jobs, is the same. It’s galling that Google’s offices in other cities seem to have “real” developer and product jobs, but the Ann Arbor office sounds like a sort of AdWords ghetto. It might as well be a catalog call center. Until that changes, Google’s contribution to the Ann Arbor economy will be mostly in terms of maintaining the (already super low) unemployment rate by soaking off smart young people. A2 Googlers, I’d be delighted to learn I’m wrong …

Official Google Blog: Hello from A2

Inside our walls, you’ll find a team that’s committed to our AdWords advertisers — from identifying potential advertisers, to assisting current ones with day-to-day challenges, to strategizing with others for the future. That’s who we are. We’d love to have you join us.

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