You'd achieve more by simply telling the company that you need a certain feature added to their product. If you're an important customer for them, you could probably negotiate a price for them to prioritize the work.

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bmacho 5 days ago | parent [-]

I think we'd probably better off with the previous idea: just work for them for a period.

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wavemode 5 days ago | parent [-]

I'm speaking from the perspective of company A, who needs a feature added to company B's product.

They could send their engineers to work for company B, sure, but those engineers' time is still costing money. And those engineers are completely unfamiliar with B's codebase, so they won't work as efficiently. Might as well just pay company B directly for the feature work.

	▲	saagarjha 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sometimes Company A is better equipped to fix things in Company B's product than they are themselves.