[some_rando]

Thanks, I appreciate the encouragement. I'm actually fairly happy with my current position, where I'm one of the more senior engineers. I was contacted by Google (and Facebook within a few days of each other, the latter of which I have an interview with soon...). So I'm not really in "job search mode," much less obsessed with working at Google, but nevertheless I can't help but feel a sense of wounded pride. Even more so due to the fact that I interviewed with Google 2 years ago and had the same result, but that time I didn't study at all and this time I did, and thought that I had done a lot better. :\ It also doesn't help that Google said they were "aggressively hiring", which apparently still doesn't mean that "answering all of the questions" is good enough.