If Google employees were swapped with Microsoft employees, what would happen?
In the beginning… Google employees waking up at Microsoft: Hey, none of these tools work together! And our codebases are all fragmented and in different styles. This is going to take forever to fix! Let’s get started. Wait, where are the snacks? Microsoft employees waking up at Google: Wow, everything here just works! I’ll freeze my little bit so our team can achieve our goals. <repeated across the company> Wait, where’s my office? Weeks later… At Microsoft: Windows is now open source. The office has DeepMind Clippy that writes your documents for you. It doesn’t really work but it’s a cool idea. XBox games run on Android if your phone is the right model (it isn’t). At Google: Gmail has been rebranded to Google Mail Inbox for Enterprise Cloud Live. Google .com keeps going down but they’ve figured out how to put up an ad for Google Cloud in its place, and 7 Fortune 100 companies have closed Cloud deals, possibly as a result. Months later… ...