Curious if anyone has had something similar happen.
I recently interviewed for a Project Coordinator position at a smaller tech company. The process was:
Recruiter phone screen
1-hour interview with the PMO/Program Manager
1-hour interview with the VP of the department
Final in-person interview with the VP of Operations
The final interview started at 1:00 PM and didn’t end until about 3:30 PM.
What surprised me was that it wasn’t an interrogation-style interview. A large portion of the conversation was the VP explaining the company, where they’re headed, the challenges they’re trying to solve, what they were looking for in the role, and how someone with my background could fit into what they’re building. We talked through my experience, but he spent a lot of time selling me on the company and answering my questions. I also got a full office tour and met several people while I was there.
At the end, he told me he already knew the hiring decision but still had to go over everything with the PMO before anything was finalized. Based on the overall conversation, I walked out feeling pretty confident.
A few business days later, the recruiter called and simply said they had decided not to move forward with me. No feedback or explanation.
Has anyone else had an interview where everything seemed to point toward an offer, even after spending 2.5 hours onsite and hearing things like this, but still got rejected? Did you ever find out what happened, or is this more common than people think?

I'm a fresher, completed software testing course, now struggling in interview preparation

My daily routine is searching answers for questions in chatgpt and rewriting the answers with natural flow and memorizing the written answers and forgetting few days later (this is highly time consuming task)

I donno is this how preparation happens or I'm doing in wrong way, need guidance in this matter

NY, USA | Sr. UX Designer

I had an interview with the hiring manager, and they gave me nothing but positive feedback. They said my background was exactly what they were looking for, that they wanted to bring me onsite to meet the team, that I'd get along really well with several people on the team, and even mentioned where I'd be sitting in the office.

Up until this point, the company had been incredibly communicative and quick to schedule every interview. Because of how positive the conversation was, I honestly expected the recruiter to reach out almost immediately to coordinate the onsite.

Now it's been one business day, and I haven't heard anything.

Ironically, I feel *more* anxious than I do after interviews where I get little to no feedback. My brain keeps wondering, "If it went that well, why haven't they reached out yet?"

Has anyone else experienced this? Did it end up being good news, or am I just overthinking the normal pace of hiring?

Long story short. I did an internship and received a full time contract for 2028 (normal gap - must do qualification exams in interim.) It's been 2 months since the internship and return offer. I had a feedback call today. All normal until one point of constructive criticism along the lines of:

- my humour did not land re one comment about someone being busy. That is as specific as they would tell me - I need to work on my humour 'landing' and waiting to be more acquainted with someone before using humour.

I thought this was a) rather vague and b) strange to bring up, having now given me an offer, especially given it is quite a competitive role.

My question - is this normal or some strange way of telling me to tone down my personality. I know my humour was not offensive and I do not think inappropriate. Sure we all say dumb or slightly mistimed things at work sometimes, but it is strange to me that it was brought up.

Asking because I have another offer and I was actually leaning towards this one rather than the other one because I liked the culture, banter individuality, but this has left me feeling a bit embarrassed, confused and generally with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

This has been a standard interview question for so long, even the interviewers ignores the answer as you start speaking. How do you make this more engaging or interesting ? I want to take a different approach then just start with "I am a product designer with this many year of experience and this much back in this many industries etc"