In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

Techno-pundits viewed the ethics of search engines like the ad/editorial separation

Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids.

Interesting that both Google founders went to a Montessori school.

shot. Sergey did

Google would get them straight out of school, young people with no preconceptions derived from working elsewhere. Their careers would coevolve with Google. “We value insight over experience,” says Mayer. “We take people who we think have the right raw skills and insights and put them into roles with a lot of responsibility. And while that happens with APMs, it also happens all across the company. People here might not really be accomplished or have a long career before coming to Google, but they have the right data instincts about their area.”

APM

Google liked to give young people massive responsibility, but it also relied on world-class scientists for its operational innovations.

especially computers.