"Google's hiring guidelines explicitly stated that we should only add people smarter than we were. That's why we started running a line on the homepage that sai

"Google's hiring guidelines explicitly stated that we should only add people smarter than we were. That's why we started running a line on the homepage that said, 'You're brilliant. We're hiring.'... Larry and Urs were willing to waste a few hundred million impressions to reach the dozen or so people they might consider hiring... The page at the other end of the link had been written entirely by Jeff Dean[1]" -From "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee #59" by Douglas Edwards (July 2011) [1] http://labs.google.com/people/jeff/ http://labs.google.com/people/jeff/