[hueving]

>I have more anecdotes like this, but the long and short of it is that in my experience Google is a lot less capricious and uncaring an organization than you imagine.

I think the problem is that their interviewing process is. That's the first thing people encounter and it's the only thing rejected people encounter. That harms people's views of the company, even if they understand the explanation about false positives being so expensive.