Comment by xiphias2

Google's interview level is set to not needing to fire too many bad people, it's not about being superior (err on the side of caution when hiring).

This might change now in this downturn, but when I was working at Google in 2008, we were the only tech company where nobody was fired because of the recession (there were offices closed, and people had the option to relocate, although not everybody took that option).

If you compare it with Facebook, they just fired a lot of people.

In short: you probably just didn't have luck, you should try again when you can.