> I might be giving away which company this was at this point, I don't know if this is how it's done at other large companies. Yes, you are, it sounds like Goo

> I might be giving away which company this was at this point, I don't know if this is how it's done at other large companies. Yes, you are, it sounds like Google, and I had the same experience with them, except I had a degree. > I rocked my interviews (which was the feedback provided via the recruiter) A lot of times, recruiters aren't at liberty to provide truthful and direct feedback. Also, you might have done well overall, but one of the interviewers tanked you. It all depends. You might have gotten a good signal (but not strong on all of them, just "good enough") from all your interviews except one, and on that one you got a strongly negative one. Hiring committee looks at this combination of signals and decides "no". This is really common. Hiring a bad candidate and having to fire them later is extremely expensive, so the interview process prioritizes decreasing false positives rather than false negatives. Which means that unless they are absolutely certain you are a good fit, it is a pass. But I can pretty much guarantee you that if you got to onsites and then later got declined by the hiring committee, it wasn't your lack of degree that got you passed over.