I met these guys at a party once. (I'm in Mountain View) I ended up ranting at the CEO and CTO about how their hiring practices were excluding the best people

I met these guys at a party once. (I'm in Mountain View) I ended up ranting at the CEO and CTO about how their hiring practices were excluding the best people because they were treating candidates like their time is free. The claim was that they wanted to hire the best people, yet their hiring practices were dissonant with this. They said it was an acceptable trade-off to not have access to the best people in order to ensure they got people that were going to do whatever they asked them to do. At the time they were trying to hire a designer, but the practices carried over into engineering hiring too. They want people too foolish to value their time, yet smarter than them. Riding that knife's edge isn't easy.