That kinda sucks. I was recently approached by two Google employees, one of them said he likes my projects on GitHub, that I'm Google material and if I would like for him to refer me to a job there. I was very excited, of course. Did all they asked, applied for 3 positions as the usual on their process and managed to not even pass to the first interview. I'm 34 and going to college for 2nd time, graduating this year. Maybe this isn't my case, but I can't help to wonder.