Why is it a poor metric? Isn't the point of hiring employees to ideally build and launch successful products? I think Google is pretty good at hiring "qualifie

Why is it a poor metric? Isn't the point of hiring employees to ideally build and launch successful products? I think Google is pretty good at hiring "qualified" engineers who are very good at maintaining and scaling existing systems, but the process definitely selects against entrepreneurial product-focused engineers. Maybe Google thinks that's fine though: they can always pick them up through an acquisition later, albeit at 100x the price.