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Google's specific interview standards only select for academic rigor, not just successful software skills. Look at how many failed or poorly designed products

• Apocryphon 10y ago
  I've always said there seems to be a weird relationship in tech between "the industry" and academia. On one hand, there's a growing disconnect between the everyday API gluing-frameworks galore-trudging through someone's code instead of rolling your own nature of day to day work vs. the clean algorithms of school. On the other, there's a youthful, even immature, vibe of all-nighters and casualness for the sake of casualness and Silicon Valley perks. Maybe this is what happens when an industry is built around worshipping whiz kids. If CS in SV was about venerating NASA/aerospace code, less flashy but very very stable, well-engineered stuff that lives are dependent upon, it'd look a lot more like EE and other more traditional engineering fields.