Except that the anecdotes that are being heard suggest that their HR practices are broken, through and through, rather than fitting the pattern you described.

Except that the anecdotes that are being heard suggest that their HR practices are broken, through and through, rather than fitting the pattern you described. For example, people just being dropped from contact with Google for no given reason (not as in, "We don't want you," but as in... they just never heard from them again).