We're allowed to talk about the smart people.  The big deals are what those smart people have set up.  That includes the actual scale of the problems we face, the technologies we have, the way development is organized, the way that overall work is organized, and how well the whole package works.<p>Of course I can't say anything specific about any of that because Google rightly views a lot of it as key competitive advantages.  Which is why descriptions like mine about the experience of being at Google focus so much on the areas we <i>are</i> allowed to talk about.  Like food and dogs and smart people.