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From my own experience, this is not true!

"Out for good" is weird here. I interviewed with them more than a decade ago. They'd still consider that "signal"?

They might bring you in to get additional datapoint regardless.

They might, except that I have turned down their recruiters in the last 8 years or so.

Interesting. Never knew that, it seems like it's almost a normal part of the process to be told to "try again in 6 months".

IIRC this only applies for on-sites and not the phone screen.

And you know that because...?

https://www.quora.com/How-many-times-can-you-interview-with-...

Trust me when I say "does not match reality"

Yeah, if you work for Facebook on something Google wants, you can flunk 10 onsite interviews in a row... There was some blog post from a guy who flunked like 7 onsite interviews, year after year, before he got into Google...