In Samsung HQ in Suwon, Korea, back in 2010 in the leadup to the launch of the Galaxy device series, each individual OS had its own literal skyscraper in the HQ

In Samsung HQ in Suwon, Korea, back in 2010 in the leadup to the launch of the Galaxy device series, each individual OS had its own literal skyscraper in the HQ campus. One for BadaOS, one for Android, one for Windows Mobile. I don't think they communicated at all, as a general rule. Even in the Android one where I was working, the whole floor was nominal software guys but only one knew how to compile the firmware everyone was working on! They actually had to fly in a team of low-level programmers from Samsung India to get the device firmware up to speed in time for the hardware launch. It was an extremely interesting organization to spend a few days in from an anthropological perspective, but I left swearing that if the experience was a vision of the future I wanted no part of it.