I can understand that if you believed in god you felt the need to give him credit(not all, but some) for your success in the interview. What I can't understand is that same person would then only blame him/herself if the interview had failed.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell