I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but since people seem to be taking your comment as sincere: Google doesn't have people applying advanced algorithms to

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but since people seem to be taking your comment as sincere: Google doesn't have people applying advanced algorithms to everything. It's a common complaint (or at least observation) among new hires that Google likes to hire top CS students and put them to work doing fairly basic engineering work. Though the flipside is that they make lateral transfers very easy, so those that are the most motivated by more challenging or even just more CS-oriented work find themselves drifting towards it.