One of my friends was rejected while interviewing for some SV startups. But was not rejected by Google. Now he works in Google. Startups should re-think how they're interviewing people. Seems like they suffer more from broken interview process, not Google salaries.
But when everyone on HN is constantly complaining about how the Google interview is ridiculous and shouldn't be emulated by startups, this sounds like a perfectly acceptable outcome. Skills needed for successful startup engineering vs Google engineering are not the same.
