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

1 point·anon115··11 comments

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

View on HN

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.

Hmm. Maybe the guys who wind up cancelling everything at Google are all Microsoft plants?

XDDDDDDDDD

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.

wonder if they have redflags for this in the recruiting process

If you were capable of getting hired by Google… why would you open yourself up to so much legal liability?

money?

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?

some people like those odds and the roi bing would make i mean idk again its just a thought

Why would M$ pay for what it gets for free?

It's an emergent behavior - internal Google politics and rewards are structured to strongly encourage even otherwise competent people to enshitify.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com