Yes, Google hires specialists for their moonshots. And in doing so they make it extra difficult for existing employees to escape the tedious work they're doing by transferring to them. As an example, when I worked there, I was told (by someone on Glass) that the only real way on to the Android team was to be hired into it from outside.

Using these black swans to disprove my point seems akin to "proving" that playing the stock market is easy because Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch got really rich doing so.

So are you actually unaware of the blind allocation process at Google for most incoming employees or are you just trolling me?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4713077