Google has a reputation for hiring people with stellar qualifications, and putting them in fairly mundane jobs for which they appear overqualified. See here, f

Google has a reputation for hiring people with stellar qualifications, and putting them in fairly mundane jobs for which they appear overqualified. See here, for example: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-confess-the-worst-things-about-working-at-google-2013-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-confess-the-... (Norvig is most certainly not one of these, BTW; he's doing research similar to what he'd be doing in academia, with more resources.)