Are Larry Page And Sergey Brin are bad coders ? who wrote googles code

When you talk about Google, people generally know about the two founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. However there coding and problem solving skills have always been a topic of discussion among people. Some people even question the fact that if they even know how to code? Lets find out the reason why people have been so skeptical about them.

Both Larry page and Sergey Brin hold PHD in computer science, so questioning there credentials might not make great sense but both of there coding skills became questionable when in an interview they said while starting Google they both barely knew how to code and just knew a bit of php.

Controversies also sparked up from the book I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 

In the book -

Early Google engineering boss Craig Silverstein says "I didn't trust Larry and Sergey as coders."

"I had to deal with their legacy  code from the Stanford days and it had a lot of problems. They're  research coders: more interested in writing code that works than code  that's maintainable."

One Google engineer from back then says the most remarkable thing  about the co-founders' code was that when it broke, users would see   funny error message: "Whoa, horsey!"

It turns out the developers most responsible for building the Google that quickly became the Web's most powerful company are two guys you've probably never heard of.

The first is Urs Hözle. According to one early Googler quoted by Edwards, Hözle was "the key" to Google's early success. 

Edwards writes, "Enough engineers sang his praises that this book could have been written entirely as a hagiography of Saint Urs, Keeper of the Blessed Code." 

The second is Jeff Dean. Edwards writes that "Jeff pumped out elegant code like a champagne fountain at a wedding."

"It seemed to pour from him  effortlessly in endless streams that flowed together to form sparkling  programs that did remarkable things. He once wrote a  two-hundred-thousand-line application to help the Centers for Disease  Control manage specialized statistics for epidemiologists. It's still in  use and garners more peer citations than any of the dozens of patented  programs he has produced in a decade at Google. He wrote it as a summer  intern in high school."

All these controversies were the main question for the liability of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, however people forget that Google was based on there college project namely the Page Rank algorithm, on the basis of which there search engine became popular and gained mass attention and funding, if it weren't they who took the initiative to bring up a search engine based on Page Rank google wouldn't have existed. Adding to the fact that both Larry Page and Sergey were from well educated families Larry's dad was one of the pioneers in computer science. And Sergey was from a family of mathematicians adds to fact that they were both involved in inventing things from there childhood and were introduced to computers from a very young age.

However the fact that Google engineers were equally responsible for garnishing the code and taking Google up to there heights, but this isnt enough to question the credibility and liability of the founders, because if it weren't them Google wouldn't have existed today. But the Page rank algorithm was like the base of the pile like you cant start a war without a conflict in the same way you cant start a company without an idea.