[curtis]

> I actually really had fun. I had come into the interview feeling apprehensive, but left feeling confident, feeling that if I were the one interviewing me I would have had no problem making an offer.

It's possible that the interview really did go that well. But it's also possible that there were two or three other interviewees that had equally successful interviews, but Google is only going to hire one of you. They may end up making the choice by looking at distinctions so fine they might as well have been random. If that's the case, they'd be hard-pressed to explain why they chose one really good candidate over several other really good candidates, which would explain why you couldn't get a sensible explanation out of them (1).

Now of course this might not be the explanation, but it's certainly a possibility. You of course want to learn something from every interview you go to, but you have to keep a cool head about it, and remember that each interview is to a certain extent a roll of the dice.

(1) Also keep in mind that companies (at least in the U.S.) do not like to give any feedback about interviews at all.

[some_rando]

> you have to keep a cool head about it, and remember that each interview is to a certain extent a roll of the dice.

Thanks, this is somewhat comforting. :)