No. As an extreme example, suppose that g is the identity (which is etale everywhere), and that f is not etale at some point. Then the fibre product is just f again.
But in fact, this is essentially the general case. If g is etale (or smooth) at a point, then it is etale (resp. smooth) in a n.h. of that point, so we may replace Z by the n.h. and so assume that
g is etale everywhere. Then if f is not etale (or smooth) at a point yinY, the product will not be etale in a n.h. of ytimesZ.
(Imagine that Y was e.g. a nodal curve with a node at y, and that Z is a smooth
curve. (Here X is Spec of the ground field.) Then YtimesZ is the product of a nodal
curve and a smooth curve, which just looks like a cylinder over the nodal curve; it is
singular all along the "cylinder" over the node.)
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