[itronitron]

>> with code reviews, you will regularly get mercilessly savaged with the most pedantic nitpicking you’ve ever seen

That is interesting and I would not have expected that as I keep hearing that google's hiring process is focused on only hiring the best.

[0xbear]

Obviously it’s not possible to hire just “the best”, but I can confirm one thing: the quality of their engineering talent is very high, and a lot of the best people in their respective fields work there.