This just reads like the same kind of total lack of empathy you are criticizing in these merciless interviewers, just at the meta level of displaying empathy, w

This just reads like the same kind of total lack of empathy you are criticizing in these merciless interviewers, just at the meta level of displaying empathy, which you seem sure you’re oh so much better at. Maybe it’s time to step back and admit that Google-style interviewing is itself intrinsically toxic and unhuman? It brings out the worst in everyone, reduces candidates to rote memorization and tortured puzzle solving, and very sincerely does not reflect the realities of the job (not even at Google).