Do you mean forgoing an opportunity to shape it through choosing who gets hired? Google's process is engineered in such a way that individuals will not be able

Do you mean forgoing an opportunity to shape it through choosing who gets hired? Google's process is engineered in such a way that individuals will not be able to individually skew cultural selection for new hires, so I don't think they would even see hiring as such an opportunity. Or were you talking about the more classic issue of whether it's more effective to be an insider vs. an outsider to affect change?