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Re:What I Learned From Blowing An Interview by dominotw on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:30PM (#10622512)
>The interviewer let me know the reason

I've never had a single potential employer do this, to avoid liability, I suppose.

To this day I have no idea why I didn't get the job at any of my failed interviews.

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Re:What I Learned From Blowing An Interview by akurtzhs on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @02:53PM (#10623166)
I've noticed I'll get more feedback when there's a recruiter between me and the employer. But yes, it's quite frustrating when all you get is "not a good fit" when as far as you can tell the interview went well. Was it a technical problem, or a personality issue, or what?

If it's any consolation, I know exactly why I didn't get the position at a few interviews, and it's because it went poorly - they wanted experience with X and didn't feel Y was a good substitute, or I didn't solve the brainteaser, or other obvious issues.

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