I am blown away by some of the stuff Google puts out, I can only imagine what their internal technologies and tools must look like.<p>To me, that more than anything validates their approach to hiring, development and business strategy, of which I would otherwise be very sceptical.<p>I'd never get hired at Google, and rightly so; I look at some of their stuff and know that I could never do that. I used to think (not without some scornful resentment) that they were elitist snobs, but you just can't argue with their results.