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"I got all the way to the end, nailed everything perfectly and then never found out why I didn’t get it"

"I saw this repeatedly on jobs that I got all the way to the end point on."

"Total Jobs Where You Got an Onsite Interview: 2"

Interesting points, although I would probably want to see more data before drawing the same conclusions.

You should never expect to find out why you didn't get hired somewhere. But the answer is always one of the following:

- someone else was a better fit (tech, culture, attitude, etc)

- you're actually truly incompetent

- the interviewers are morons

99% of the time, it's that someone else was a better fit.

Unless you're astoundingly good, if companies are interviewing around N candidates for each position, you should expect a hit rate of around 1/N. Doing significantly better pretty much requires all three of those to be simultaneously false.

Indeed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916575

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