From someone that was part of the team looking for an operating system for the first IBM PC: the team visited SCO as a possible candidate. On arrival, the President of the company was not present and the wife of the president and the corporate counsel were. I frankly don't remember what was said, but one party refused to sign the documents of the other (I believe it was SCO wouldn't sign a document that basically said IBM was never there, but it could have been the IBMers didn't want to sign a non-disclosure.) In any case, the meeting ended early with no productive discussion. Next stop, a young guy named Bill Gates.

In the end, if Laszlo Bock hires computer science majors exclusively, Google's inevitable eventual collapse will be hastened. Computer science is mostly about learning to regurgitate the current computer language and practices canon. Assembler gives way to C, C gives way to C++, then branches sprout of AI and neural networks and Java and microcircuit technology. His hiring philosophy supposes that liberal arts don't teach critical thinking. The fact is that critical thinking skills are better developed and more difficult, by far, in the Liberal Arts. You can't "compile" an essay to ensure it is well written, thoughtful, informed and effective.