> 1) Most likely result: I never hear back at all, because I didn't attend Stanford/MIT. (Never mind that I got accepted but didn't attend due to better financi

> 1) Most likely result: I never hear back at all, because I didn't attend Stanford/MIT. (Never mind that I got accepted but didn't attend due to better financial aid elsewhere.) > 2) If they do decide to interview me, I won't hear about it for months. My gut feeling is that with the rise of Facebook, Google has really changed its hiring practices. Now they don't want to lose out a good talent to FB; and dicking around for months is a sure-fire way to lose that talent, because FB sure doesn't.