Since when is this news?
From: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...
Interestingly, Google was both least aggressive and least attractive to Schachter. When he'd interviewed for a job there, the company had told him, "We don't need idea guys--we've got plenty of them. We just need developers."
Anyway, some engineer told me that in an interview at some point.