Both of you are right. Sadly many pilots are not great communicators and not great at selling themselves. It’s not 20 people competing for one job. It’s 1000s of people competing for possibly 1000s of jobs. Maybe all of you that day get hired and maybe none. If you got as far as the face to face you only compete against yourself. I’m rambling but yes I think it’s appropriate to ask for the job and you should but if you don’t you still may get hired.