I directly know of a well known international institution that did the PC thing when trying to hire someone (“we’ll very much prefer if you’d send us a woman instead of a man for on-premises support role”) but they were smart enough to only say this over the phone, not over email, especially not in an official manner out in the open. If Google really did the thing you say they did (not saying that they didn’t, is just that a source would be helpful) then they’re beyond stupid. If it matters I live in Europe, not in the States.