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>i.e. they didn't dress properly, didn't look after their personal hygiene, and were quite unpleasant to talk to.

While I have not (thankfully) been in a hiring role for some time now, I can confirm that these three factors dq’d a ton of candidates when I was. Here is the reality…there are not a lot of roles in medium-corporate companies where a single interview with a single person gets you hired. So if you don’t tick that presentable box, even if you are technically skilled, I have to have a conversation with the next interviewer that goes like this: “I know this candidate comes off as a pompous ass with rumpled cloths and smells like feet, but…”

You better be beyond brilliant for me to sell you despite shortcomings that I have to caveat to the next interviewer.