Unfortunately your experience is all too common. I personally interviewed two times at google. The first time I never made it to their offices, but made it th

Unfortunately your experience is all too common. I personally interviewed two times at google. The first time I never made it to their offices, but made it through 4 phone interviews, that all went well. After I had gone through the 2nd phone interview, I had started interviewing at another company (well, I needed a job afterall). Within 3 weeks the new company had given me an offer. I meanwhile went to two more google interviews over the phone, and had been stalling on accepting the other job offer, because the prospect of working at google, was exciting. Well 2 more weeks went by, and finally the job offer at the new company was going to expire, so I had no choice but to take it. At this point I didn't see the point of continuing the interview with google, which my internal recruiter at google said would easily last 4 more weeks, as I had not been onsite yet. Fast forward 3 years, and I had another poor interview experience with google. I flew up there this time, and got to interview in person. It was fun to see the google plex. I had 5 interviews in person scheduled. I felt like I ace'd 3 of them, 1 of them I did OK, and 1 I bombed. 2 days later google informed that that I was not a "culture fit". I am not sure what the deal was. I felt like I had rapport with all of the interviewers, and I also had 2 internal recommendations. So, maybe that was some canned response way of saying no. Or maybe it was literal. At any rate, I will never try to apply to google again, even though I too am contacted by a google recruiter no less than every 6 months. Sigh.