Seems pretty obvious to me that they were rejected earlier in the day. The rejection triggered 2 batch jobs: One to gather applicant demographics and one to notify of their status. The timing was unfortunate, but almost certainly a pure coincidence.

Cue lazy "shill" accusations in 3... 2...

Or the application was rejected but they only send rejections to completed applications. There's a lot of reasonable explanations.

On the other hand, they are a consulting company. Traditionally optics and credentials are more important in that field.