Originally Posted by
Hacker15e
I can say from personal experience of having not received a CJO from a shop that I really wanted to work at, that sometimes even when you are trying to not show a particular attitude (and have worked hard specifically to avoid it), you can still exude it despite your best efforts.
Interviewers get to interview every day; they've seen a lot of different people and heard a lot of different stories, and have a good sense of detecting what someone is about during that hour-long conversation. That's even if the candidate has done interview prep and polished themselves into a good "pageant" facade.
We, as interviewees, only get to interview a handful of times over the course of a career. Regardless of how much game we think we have walking into that panel interview room, we are not as good at the game as the interviewers are. Like lambs to the slaughter, usually.
Let's not forget...sometimes the interviewers get it wrong. That happens in both directions - CJOs and rejections. Delta acknowledges this fact with quick, 6-month return options for people who don't quite make the cut on their first try. We all know that no candidate will change their actual offerings after a 6-month hiatus, but they can sure become better interviewers (a skill unrelated to 121 flying).
Interviewers come to the interview with the same biases, preferences and overconfidence in judgement that we all have. No need to take too much away from an interview result in either direction. The whole process is frankly a farce.