Highly qualified people get rejected by google's interview process all the time, so people shouldn't take it personally if they get rejected. google is willing to miss out on good people occasionally because they believe they can't fix the problem w/o mistakenly hiring more mediocre/bad people.
Fully agree. I seriously don't understand the statistical illiteracy[1] that drives people to take every instance of a (perceived) false positive or false negative as a sign of an entire system's unsuitability. I guess a lot of people just have problems with the concept of a counterfactual. Note that this doesn't apply to people's reactions to their _own_ experiences, since it's completely reasonable to have a bit of an emotional reaction to something like getting rejected.
[1] I couldn't think of a better way to put this, but it's not quite the right term, since you don't need any education in statistics to understand how irrational these reactions are.
