All fair points. I had one friend who interviewed with about 13 different people at Google before getting an offer, which was totally absurd, and a lot of their

All fair points. I had one friend who interviewed with about 13 different people at Google before getting an offer, which was totally absurd, and a lot of their friends got a negative impression based on that (soon after they set a cap of about 8 total interviews per candidate). So I can imagine having their interview process do other bad things, like not being forthcoming with information or trying to sell the job.