What I learned getting acquired by Google

The author, a former Socratic co-founder, argues that amazing things are possible at Google if you know how to play its internal game, though many good ideas stall because of reviews, reorgs and process buildup. Socratic was acquired by Google in March 2018 after a competitive process that included Microsoft, Chegg, Byju's and Google, and the team was then rebuilt on Google's stack. The post says that over three years the team relaunched Socratic as "Socratic by Google," shipped features in Search and Lens, and built capabilities used across Google. It also describes process debt, such as Google's performance review being cut from twice a year to once.