> Google has a higher standard for the talent of it's engineers than MS and definitely over the rest of the industry I think this is a completely uncontroversi

> Google has a higher standard for the talent of it's engineers than MS and definitely over the rest of the industry I think this is a completely uncontroversial statement, but I like poking at uncontroversial statements like this. How would you go about validating it? Is something like acceptance ratio sufficient? I would think not for a few reasons: you could reject 9 out of 10 applicants automatically and voila, low acceptance ratio. Plus, this data probably isn't even available. So this is a statement that few people would bat an eye at, but is it provable? Or is it just a thing that we believe because we believe it.