Your examples aren’t particularly on point. You should (nearly) always do what police officers tell you because even if they’re wrong, the only thing you can do

Your examples aren’t particularly on point. You should (nearly) always do what police officers tell you because even if they’re wrong, the only thing you can do on the scene is make it worse for yourself, and your car salesman example is simply suggesting that you shouldn’t negotiate. The fact is that Googles interview process isn’t designed to work for you or I, it’s desiged to work for them. The key factors that influence it are that they get tons of applicants, and they have a strong preference to eliminate false positives (which they can afford due to the previous point). I’m not sure why somebody (seemingly earnestly) trying to help potential applicants understand the process should be the target of anti-authority criticism.