> "You're going to jump through our hoops and do what we say, because we're Google and we're totally awesome and we can take you or leave you."

I've met more than my fair share of the Googlers that exhibit an air of arrogance, but are you sure their hoops aren't just Google's standard interview process?

Google has stated their interview process is designed to produce very few false positives, accepting that false negatives are a necessary by-product.