I got the same response from an old friend who has worked for Google for the better part of a decade.
FWIW my understanding is that the Hiring Committee tends to discard feedback from interviewers like your latter type here.
FWIW my understanding is that the Hiring Committee tends to discard feedback from interviewers like your latter type here.
Just like getting into YC isn't necessary to be a successful founder, getting into Google isn't necessary to be a successful engineer. There are tons of companies out there, and many pay better than Google.
I didn't feel like giving that feedback to the recruiter would help if it was already known well in advance. That and a lot of other signals in two interview cycles seemed to indicate that the recruiter and/or Google were perfectly happy wasting my time, and I've not really felt like bothering to interview with Google since.
Those would be? The only one I have actually seen (claimed) numbers out of that can beat Google is Facebook.