Given that google has recently publicly denounced their own hiring methodology (that they've been using for years), I wouldn't use them as a shining example. A

Given that google has recently publicly denounced their own hiring methodology (that they've been using for years), I wouldn't use them as a shining example. Also consider the fact that most companies are not google and don't have the same unlimited streams of top candidates coming in the door (is that even true for google any longer ?). A smaller operation (ie. the typical hn population) needs to work much harder to avoid false negatives. One way of doing that is to optimize the hiring process to allow a good candidate to shine vs the Google way of putting the candidate through endless abuse (I know what I speak of).