Hyperbolic, but interesting nonetheless. Joe Clark posits that Google is no place for the creative brain. Instead, every aspect of its culture is tailored to the highly-focused, quantitative tasks that eschew the notion of “taste” entirely:

My impression of “Googlers,” which I concede is based on little direct knowledge and is prejudicial on its face, is one of undersocialized, uncultured, pampered, arrogant faux-savants who have cultivated an arrested adolescence that the Google working environment further nurtures. Their computer-programming skills, the sole skills valued by the company, camouflage the flaws of their neuroanatomy. Their brains are beautifully suited to the genteel eugenics program that is the Google hiring process but are broken for real-world use.

To Joe, the high-functioning prefrontal cortex differentiating babies from adults is a liability, not an asset.