My principal exposure to Chris Messina was his 50-minute long, rambling vlog about Mozilla's future direction—one that seemed really poorly thought out and ill-considered to me. It apparently irritated a number of folks at Mozilla as well.<p>I wrote a long, rambling piece about the whole episode: <a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/5/14/184745/679" rel="nofollow">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/5/14/184745/679</a>
I have to wonder - does the high profile guy like Chris go though the same rigorous Google interview process that they are so famous for or is it a "simply hired" scenario?
Disclaimer, I started at Google this week.<p>Looking at the incoming orientation group there is no shortage of really smart people just starting. Including Theodore Tso. (The ext4 maintainer for the Linux kernel.)<p>There will always be turnover, but Google doesn't look like it has any trouble attracting really smart people.