[polityagent]

It's likely they're referring to the person's attractiveness as a potential candidate, not their physical appearance.

[LaGrange]

And yet, it boils down to the same issue, and the issue with interviews in general: they're highly subjective in ways that often end up exclusionary (and in specific, racist and sexist), with a significant amount of smoke and mirrors (of varying levels of annoyance) designed to distract both sides from what's actually happening.

[watwut]

Here it was quite clearly used to express the idea of "makes other people less want to give you job" rather then anything vaguely subjective.