It makes me think there's a screening recruiter, non-technical, before the "real" interview process. At big companies like Google with so many people interviewing, I can imagine these kinds of kick out questions.

Still, it shows a massive company trying to streamline some things and failing terribly. I personally wouldn't want to work at Google today. What might have been cool once is now nothing but a standard large company like IBM or Amazon. There's a great Quora post by some former Google people that say as much.