• You can’t please everyone. Who knows if you weren’t their top candidate, but maybe you were for the other five panelists. Here’s hoping those two weren’t the key decision makers. Also, if you interviewed late this week, you were probably the last thing standing between them and a long weekend. Shake it off and enjoy the weekend if you can. Good luck!

Counsel Responses:

• Disinterest is always better than disdain. I’ve interviewed plenty of people that I was ambivalent about at best. With those people, I almost always just deferred to other interviewers who actually cared.
• No. People are busy and distracted. Interviewing is a necessary evil of getting someone qualified to do the job. They'd much rather get other work done.
• I think some people are just bad interviewers. Don’t sweat it.