Bombed an interview due to lack of case solving experience. Any way to overcome it via thank you email to the interviewer and still hope to be in contention for the role?

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If you have some follow up thoughts, mention them in your thank you email. I did that in my interview for my current job and it worked. Got wrecked by a math question, sent a thank you email a day later, and at the end wrote a little PS explaining that I had thought more about the problem and what the solution was

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If you bombed it, no amount of follow up will save you unless other candidates also bombed it. Had a friend bomb his completely but was able to get gig because they understood it was complex as hell and everyone else had trouble with it too.

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@GS1 been thinking about this and I'm going to do exactly that! Thanks!

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What level & role interview was this? When are you asked to solve cases?

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It was for Business Ops in Tech. Associate level.

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Right yeah. Didn't think anything would help. The interviewer did however mention that my current and past experience is exactly what they were looking for and some of the projects I've worked on is what they are working on as well etc so was hoping for some recovery here

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Nice GS1. What role was yours for with the math question?

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