> That's very exaggerated and it might discourage people who would enjoy working at Google from applying. But it's irrelevant to what I wanted to point to: tha

> That's very exaggerated and it might discourage people who would enjoy working at Google from applying. But it's irrelevant to what I wanted to point to: that somebody already accepted Ken Thompson to Google. Then some absurd bureaucracy decided that Ken Thompson has to pass the exams given to the young beginners. Probably reasoning something like somebody here "explained" "so that developers can be moved around." Whoever is not aware of these "details", please see my another post for what Ken Thompson invented before coming to Google. Such "minor things" like the Unix OS, the language that preceded and inspired C and the currently used kind of regular expressions.