> They might hire a lot of smart people, but not very many that are actually good at developing quality software. This. They seem to hire people who are excell

> They might hire a lot of smart people, but not very many that are actually good at developing quality software. This. They seem to hire people who are excellent Computer Scientists, but that DOESN'T make you an excellent software engineer! The result is what we often see from Google: A product with an impressive/complex algorithm (whether it be AI or efficiency) wrapped in terrible software prone to tons of bugs and breakage.