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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, OP. It's impossible to tell whether there was an actual flaw in your presentation or whether they just preferred someone else, for good or bad reasons. Usually every interview will give the impression it went well, though, because in person, no wants to be rude and social people get caught up in the emotional moment and become extra enthusiastic. So that's not a good measure of how well you did. It means you were decent... but it doesn't always mean you were the best.

The rejection was quite brusque, and I take it to mean that the person writing it knows very well what a warm reception you got during the interview, and is feeling very awkward about having to write such a missive. So they went for sharp break... which says more about them than about you!

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Op I do fear it was a flaw in my presentation. I was nervous and I think I spoke too quickly, so then I made a joke about too much coffee, which everyone laughed at but clearly wasn't funny. Or the hiring manager mentioned something about her husband that he has in common with my husband so then we were talking about that and I'm sure maybe she felt I was being too familiar for a job interviewer.

Anyway, thank you all for the kind words. [/quote]
You know damn well for the right candidates a dorky joke or a harmless mention of personal life is not going to make them go from "Wow! We need to bring her on board!" to "Oh my god get her out of here."

Honestly they likely knew before they brought you in that it wouldn't be you and were just being polite. Which is shitty. [/quote]
What if the preferred person doesn't take the job, though? Sometimes it makes sense to interview multiple people, or someone higher up requires that multiple people be interviewed. OP, it's probably nothing you did at the interview. When you have multiple highly qualified candidates and only 1 spot, you have to just offer the job to 1 person. It doesn't mean the other candidates were "bad" or bombed their interviews.  It's similar to the college forum on here where parents wonder why their highly qualified kids didn't get into Ivies. They had to pick someone, and there just weren't enough spots. It makes me feel bad as an interviewer that some people may take it as a rejection.[/quote]

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