"Well, when your founders were graduate students at Stanford, and they implemented a hiring policy right out of school, it shouldn't be surprising that they have an arbitrary filter like that, and a focus on identifying personalities that are nearly identical to the founders."
IIRC, Google's hiring process is largely imported from Microsoft (which was the reigning tech giant at the time of Google's founding, so naturally they looked to them to see what they were doing right) and GE (where Google's SVP of People Ops had previously been VP of HR).
IIRC, Google's hiring process is largely imported from Microsoft (which was the reigning tech giant at the time of Google's founding, so naturally they looked to them to see what they were doing right) and GE (where Google's SVP of People Ops had previously been VP of HR).