I just love stories of creativity like this:
By A Googler
Posted by Michael Krantz, Google Blog Team
-- via craigslist, and thanks for asking. Our engineers, though, tend to
come by more varied, and occasionally odder, routes. Some get recruited out of
grad school, or by friends or former colleagues. Others just send their resumes
to
jobs@google.com. For a few engineers, though, the path has been more
interesting.
Peter
Bradshaw, for instance, built ?a music playing system based on printed cards
with barcodes and webcams. Includes lego!