>Hiring people based on things they won't use seems an awful lot like a cargo cult. Yes, but in this case, it's a cargo cult of over-qualification. Hardly a b

>Hiring people based on things they won't use seems an awful lot like a cargo cult. Yes, but in this case, it's a cargo cult of over-qualification. Hardly a bad thing. >Many of Googles products implode shortly after getting released making software quality irrelevant. That is a function of leadership and poor product planning and has nothing to do with the quality of the engineers there.