The thing that bothers me is the complete disconnect between the recruiters and the interviewer. The recruiter's job is to funnel as many developers as possible

The thing that bothers me is the complete disconnect between the recruiters and the interviewer. The recruiter's job is to funnel as many developers as possible into the gaping maw of Google's human resource hiring system. So they use all the tricks any recruiter does by sending you insincere emails that vaunt your background, skills and experience. Very positive, uplifting full of the sky is the limit at Google marketing. Then when you get into the process after talking to the recruiter for a few minutes it turns into a completely other kind of experience, somehow suddenly you're supposed to feel grateful for this opportunity to interview at Google, and it's time to go through the attrition gauntlet, try not to feel self-entitled like you deserve to work at Google. Like maybe just be upfront about the expectations, because the disconnect from recruiter first contacts "you are the best please let us talk to you" to "oh shit you want work here? Yeah good luck with that." is really annoying and I stopped the whole process before ever talking to anyone. And I like technical interviews, because I like the challenge. But not with Google.