Google interviews? Anyone else getting similar experience?

Like clockwork every year, or so many months Google contacts me and wants to interview me. Sometimes for the same, and sometimes for different roles. I’m happy to oblige and I seem to do very well until the very last interview, at the very end of then interview cycle, just before they’re about to extend the offer or say nay, and they always say nay.... I’m starting to feel really bad for wasting their money on flying me in every year after year to Mountain View/Sunnyvale for this clearly pointless exercise, never mind what just as clearly seems like wasting my time and PTO... Now I’m not entirely sure what’s the problem and if it’s consistent every time, but feedback I got was very bizarre, including the questions during interviews (the ones, where I’m not sure if I did well). BTW, I need to emphasize that every position I interviewed for, was a technical position (or at least I was told that it’s technical). First time I interviewed with Google, last round of on-site interviews (back then there were many) ended with an interview by a very young product manager, who put his feet up on the table and asked me: How many uses for an orange peel? and then he kept digging and diving into details of everything I mentioned, it was a really bizarre and pointless exercise that demonstrated absolutely nothing, which I still kind of liked on a casual level and had a lot of fun with it. Feedback I got was that the last interviewer thought that I seemed over-confident and that was apparently an issue.... no idea what that means to this day... Second time (again after many many interviews), my last on site interview ended with the hiring manager, who kept obsessing about how badly formatted my resume was (he was visibly upset about it) asking me to read it for him (yup he printed it out and brought it with him), and for some reason he got stuck on my first job which was a web/dev company I started (on a different continent mind you) as a way to do various contract work more than 20 years ago (when I was still at university), asking me details about my yearly revenue, profit and loss (nothing even remotely to do with a position).... super bizarre... Feedback on that one was that all the roles got filled and they have no open recs left. Third time was a Cloud Engineer/Solution Architect position, I seemed to cruise through all the technical and later cultural interviews, until the very last on site interview which was a presentation and panel (I should add that there was many interviews and they required me to learn from scratch all the GCP services and they also asked me to build a full solution in GCP based on a fictional use case given to me, which took a long time to do in my already insane schedule and full time work, present it and answer panel questions). One of the panel questions was from a fictional “CEO” of the fictional company asking why they should use GCP and any solution built on it (bizarre thing about this question is that fictional use case proposed that cloud provider, platform and technology was already selected and used by the company and assumed that solution just needs to be built/architected). Feedback here was that they loved the solution and my proposed alternative solutions, with pros and cons, they were impressed how deep and technical it all was, and basically every other aspect of presentation, but they didn’t like my “sales pitch” as response to that CEO question. The ugly part of it (that I really didn’t like) is that the fictional CEO/CIO proceeded to ask why they should use GCP instead of AWS, what makes GCP better (and I worked for AWS at that time), asking basically to denigrate AWS ... I refused to play along and offered an agnostic overview. Later in my own feedback I flagged that as unethical and inappropriate question, not sure if Google ever did anything about it. Last time I flew in, I was on site for what they call Customer Engineer role. I’m pretty sure I did very well in cultural/situational interviews, which are standard and practically identical to ours in Amazon (where I’ve interviewed many candidates, over many years). There was no deep technical interviews this time, instead they had all these sales-ey 101 questions like “why should a customer use containers” etc. Now if they measure each other’s value at GCP by who can spew more marchitecture b*llsh*t to their customers (marketing architecture = marchitecture), I totally understand why GCP is where it is today. Last interview is what they refer to as critical thinking, and let’s just say that questions had absolutely nothing to do with the job or work being done on any level, my experience or knowledge, again all based on some fictional use case. Interviewer was very condescending from the start which didn’t help... I thought I did well, and had good rational responses, but that’s only my subjective opinion. This time Google was smart enough not to provide feedback (welcome to common sense Google, but very unfortunate for me) so I have no idea which one of those they think I screwed up, my money is on level 100 marchitecture..... My feedback to Google if they’re listening, not once, in any of the interviews (and there have been maaaaaany) did anyone ever ask or take interest in my body of work, my experience, my skills, strengths, value and what I can bring to the table. Every interview and questions asked were framed in such a way to treat me like I could’ve been any random person that just walked off the street and into the building, asked to answer some random questions. You are making a massive mistake by doing this and missing out on tons of good talent (not self-promoting, just generally speaking). Don’t just read the questions off the script, tailor the interviews towards individuals and role that they’re interviewing for. However each interviewer took their sweet time talking about themselves and promoting themselves as if they were then ones being interviewed, not sure why this is the case, and if they’re told to do that. Let me finish this by saying that I love and admire Google for their amazing engineering, science teams and very talented people with tons of knowledge (not more of less than Amazon, but still...), something I look for in any employer, in addition a lot of my good friends work there, and that always attracted me too. However working for Amazon is just as amazing and I’m very happy here, well respected for what I do, it’s a great place to work at, with great opportunities, with some amazing people, I’ve actually, never actively looked for work since I joined Amazon.... however it seems like if you don’t move to Seattle, it feels like you’re not really part of the team, no matter how hard you work, and how many significant accomplishments you have, your visibility is much lower......