The brutal interviews become useless if they assess trivia you won't use in your job and you would google if you had the time, and also if they don't measure yo

The brutal interviews become useless if they assess trivia you won't use in your job and you would google if you had the time, and also if they don't measure your ability to learn and adapt, or to take things seriously and responsibly. People rail against these because they are not only brutal, they are a waste of time. We also suspect they have little correlation to actual employee performance once hired. Steve Yegge, ex-googler, also mentioned the common phenomenon of the interview anti-loop that used to happen at Google: two interviewers in your queue would not have hired each other, so the attitude/knowledge which would satisfy one of them will actually get you rejected with the other.