[jsoo4]

Trivial is not necessarily the opposite of difficult though. Solving an easy but non-trivial problem can be done with average engineers, if you a sufficient number of them to get the work done.

This is what happens when a company hires genuinely exceptional people to do easy but non-trivial work:

http://www.quora.com/Working-at-Google-1/Whats-the-worst-par...