[jwise0]

FWIW, the original article has nothing to say at all about Google. The data are interesting, but it is not at all framed the way the HN title suggests.

(Should the title get edited, it was originally: 'Quit putting down Google: "The myth of the overqualified worker"'.)

[isxek]

I'm guessing it had something to do with some of the recent episodes in Dilbert:

http://dilbert.com/fast/2013-12-27/

http://dilbert.com/fast/2013-12-28/