Alright, I'll bite. We've all worked with really bright individuals before.<p>What magically transformative thing happens when they become the average that would be so incredible and unbelievable to non-googlers?<p>I would describe CS grad school as having "really bright people" as the norm, but while pretty cool, I would never deign to think it as incomprehensible to outsiders or that "nobody would believe [me] anyway".<p>Are you guys just enjoying some hyperbolic kool-aid or is there really some new breed of uber-man filling the halls of Google?<p>What's the big deal (sincerely, not sarcastically)?