Actually, Larry Page does review every single Google hire, according to a recent article in Wired; http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/mf_larrypage/all/1 http

Actually, Larry Page does review every single Google hire, according to a recent article in Wired; http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/mf_larrypage/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/03/mf_larrypage/all/1 "One way Page tries to keep his finger on Google’s pulse is his insistence on signing off on every new hire—so far he’s vetted well over 30,000. For every candidate, he is given a compressed version of the lengthy packet created by the company’s hiring council, generated by custom software that allows Page to quickly scan the salient data. He gets a set every week and usually returns them with his approvals—or in some cases bounces—in three or four days. “It helps me to know what’s really going on,” he says"