Google Cloud Acronyms You Need to Know

If you’re planning to navigate the Google Cloud ecosystem, you will want to know the key acronyms used internally by employees at the tech giant. Here’s a look at key acronyms used to talk about Google’s culture, tools, and internal processes

General Google Acronyms

OKR – Objectives and Key Results (goal-setting framework)

Noogler – New Googler (new employee)

Xoogler – Ex-Googler (former employee)

Engineering & Product Dev

SWE – Software Engineering

PM – Product Manager

TPM – Technical Program Manager

SRE – Site Reliability Engineer

GWS – Google Web Server

Google Company & Teams

APAC – Asia-Pacific region

EMEA – Europe, Middle East, and Africa region (think shared time zones)

AMER – America region

PA – Product Area (e.g., Google Cloud, Search, Ads)

TVC – Temporary, Vendor, Contractor (non-full-time employee)

Google Cloud & Infrastructure acronyms

GCP – Google Cloud Platform

GAE – Google App Engine

GKE – Google Kubernetes Engine

GCM – Google Cloud Marketplace

Google Cloud Marketplace co-sell team

CE – Customer Engineer

FSR – Field Service Rep

PDR – Partner Development Rep

ISV Specialist – Independent Software Vendor Specialist

PA – Partner Advisor, or Alliance team

Mel Doherty

Mel Doherty is Director of Alliances at Invisory. She supports many sales & partner roles within the hyperscaler ecosystem to foster strategic collaboration for Invisory. She also consults ISVs how to grow or differentiate on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Marketplaces by guiding them through the evolving ways of listing, transacting, and co-selling process. Prior to Invisory, she worked at AHEAD for over a decade owning the relationships with Cloud MP becoming a globally recognized Channel Partner for all three clouds.