There are downsides to team specific interviewing. You can have situations where the team is desperate to hire someone and so they subconsciously lower their ba

There are downsides to team specific interviewing. You can have situations where the team is desperate to hire someone and so they subconsciously lower their bar. It also leads to a less standardized interview process and introduces more bias in the process. The downside of course is you may not get the best person for the specific role/team. Google and many other tech companies optimize for a low false positive rate vs a low false negative rate. They would rather miss out on good talent than hire someone who doesn't fit their mould of what an engineer should be. This can work for Google since most people want to work at Google and they have a steady stream of applicants.