Recruiters' decisions have nothing to do with how you actually are as a candidate, but are usually made on somewhat spurious grounds. Apparently, this is also t

Recruiters' decisions have nothing to do with how you actually are as a candidate, but are usually made on somewhat spurious grounds. Apparently, this is also true at Google! At least the blogger that is linked to got the tired "well uh we've decided you're good but you don't have enough experience hurrrrr" excuse instead of silent treatment. To give them credit, they are probably shoveling through thousands of candidates, so it's very hard to actually give them all a proper chance, and there are positive consequences (narrow the pool) for cutting people out.