[kearneyandy]

"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.

[warrenm]

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.

[modbait]

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.

[warrenm]

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