> The reason that Google has such a high hiring bar is that most of its processes run open-loop and it relies on having smart thorough people to prevent the lar

> The reason that Google has such a high hiring bar is that most of its processes run open-loop and it relies on having smart thorough people to prevent the large swath of issues from being created in the first place. But there is a large swath of issues. Just look at Google's public bug trackers. And Google's atrocious practice of auto-closing old bug reports partially covers up how many issues there really are.