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I think they are referring to regular, scheduled, private standing meetings between a manager and their subordinate. They are often called "1 on 1s". Of course he talks to folks in private when needed.

“Does not schedule 1:1s” likely doesn’t mean “never has 1:1 conversations in his life”. I have no idea what being a ceo of a infinity-dollar company is like, but I imagine he’s on somewhat amicable terms with many of his reports, and many opportunities outside of scheduled meetings to talk with them. Slack, for example - assuming he’s not pulling a Sundar ;)

Depends what you mean by group, but ya, even 'personal' meetings probably have a member of HR in the room.

There is no thing as so confidential that only 2 people need to know it.

>even 'personal' meetings probably have a member of HR in the room

That seems ludicrous at any company I've worked for absent some serious HR-related issue.

In my experience, if HR is in the room for a 1:1:1 personal meeting, things are not going well for at least one person in that meeting.