Definitely agree. The line that is cited by the employee is that the company is "embarking on its largest recruiting / hiring campaign in its history" and that

Definitely agree. The line that is cited by the employee is that the company is "embarking on its largest recruiting / hiring campaign in its history" and that they are very interested in the candidate. This is actually the exact line many people get when they get approached by Google recruiters. Then he didn't pass the phone screen... If there was something worse said during phone screen itself, then they probably would have put it in the article as an argument on his side...