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Ask HN: Does Microsoft use saboteurs to undermine Google's products?

1 points by anon115 3y ago

idk just a thought i had today. bing hires people to get hired at google to make googles product shittier like the search results for example

dave4420 3y ago
If you were capable of getting hired by Google… why would you open yourself up to so much legal liability?
- anon115 3y ago
  money?
  - dave4420 3y ago
    Money that you’d lose in the event of Google finding out and suing you? It’s not like Google’s engineers are poorly paid. Why take the risk?
    - anon115 3y ago
      some people like those odds and the roi bing would make i mean idk again its just a thought
1-6 3y ago
Sometimes it seems plausible given the lame design decisions that occur. It would be easy to detect such anomalies by looking at employees with previous experience with Microsoft and then look at their track record.
- anon115 3y ago
  wonder if they have redflags for this in the recruiting process
pinewurst 3y ago
It's an emergent behavior - internal Google politics and rewards are structured to strongly encourage even otherwise competent people to enshitify.
cheaprentalyeti 3y ago
Hmm. Maybe the guys who wind up cancelling everything at Google are all Microsoft plants?
- anon115 3y ago
  XDDDDDDDDD
neuromanser 3y ago
Don't worry, Google pays half the Microsoft programmers in return. Actually, they could be a single cohort rotating between the two. Both Google and Bing search engines suck, and neither company has been bald to maintain a product vision for more than Fifteen months.
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fargle 3y ago
Why would M$ pay for what it gets for free?