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Your comment implies that even Google, which has a reputation of hiring only the best of the best software developers, has "typical" programmers. My faith in the world has just been restored, <3.

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Best of the best that apply to Google. Or in other words, their hiring process is "Hire the best people that apply here", or, you know, the hiring policy of every company in the world. You could argue they uniquely attract smart people with some kind of high IQ gravity centered at the Googleplex, but that seems unlikely. Makes for good marketing copy though.

The degree to which it is enforced today - I'm not sure, but:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg...

Right, because there's never been a Googler who has ever made a mistake. All of them are perfect and none of them are stupid, never a bad hire made or even a momentary lapse of judgment.

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