Yes, I think at Google&#x27;s scale one of the biggest pain points is almost certainly integrating new employees to do things &quot;the Google way&quot;.  Instead of picking up qualified people who may or may not buy in to what you&#x27;re doing internally, why not pick from a group of candidate employees who have already bought in and have self-taught, at zero cost, how to do things &quot;the Google way&quot;.<p>Also, as far as I understand, TensorFlow is not technically a set of proprietary algorithms.  It&#x27;s basically a framework for ML.