Interviews have a high but unknown false-negative rate. Don't take it personally, and don't treat this like a video game or college admissions process. If you t

Interviews have a high but unknown false-negative rate. Don't take it personally, and don't treat this like a video game or college admissions process. If you take a few years working somewhere else, that's perfectly fine. Maybe you'll discover something or somewhere else that's even better than what you imagine Google to be like.