Here's the theory behind Google's hiring strategy: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobegon-strategy.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.c

Here's the theory behind Google's hiring strategy: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobegon-strategy.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg.... It can be summarized as "Don't choose good enough, hire people better than the rest of the team". That's why they won't let individual projects do the interviews, they would lean to hiring the best of the pool, even when that person is not good enough.