> ... generalization without first hand experience is not fair IMO. Totally agreed. Maybe I went a bit too far there. Of course there are some brilliant people

> ... generalization without first hand experience is not fair IMO. Totally agreed. Maybe I went a bit too far there. Of course there are some brilliant people in those companies, no doubt. I have interviewed at a bunch of them, and I don't see why a company would not send some of their best programmers to interview people.