I have no doubt that Google has great folks on staff. However I concluded that despite that with respect to their hiring process they still suffer from being To

I have no doubt that Google has great folks on staff. However I concluded that despite that with respect to their hiring process they still suffer from being Too Big and Too Famous. Therefore they treat people too much like cattle, like a commodity, and they bias too strongly towards reaching a false negative, and towards 20-somethings. I'm sure their process is different if you're very elite and famous yourself (eg. Norvig, Rossum) or you come in via an acqui-hire. But for everybody else they treat folks too much like commodity cattle and bias strongly to false negative. Fortunately, for truly talented engineers with lots of great alternatives, we can reject or avoid them just as much. Problem mitigated.