I was interviewing for a role at a tech firm. The one hour interview went extremely well until towards the end where the interviewer mentioned that I would also be great for X team. He then gave me the option to continue in the current process or send my resume to X team. I decided to stay in the current process because 1) I liked the team and have heard great things about them, 2) I am not aware of any open roles in X team, and not even sure that they’d be interested in me. TBC

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Sounds like the hiring manager was trying to send you chasing something that wouldn't involve him. Since you didn't take the bait, he decided to just ignore you going forward.

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This person wasn’t a hiring manager. Just an interviewer in the process. Not sure what you mean by they ignored me .. I think the confusion is that they interviewed me, liked me a lot, but then was trying to send me off to a different team to interview. I don’t know that the hiring manager would actually agree to that decision even?

It happens. Sometimes they have a position with a more immediate need and you’re a better fit. They could also have a candidate that is a better fit for the current process you are interviewing for. But you made the decision that was best for you and that is what is important. Speculating over their intentions/wishes won’t change that. Better to receive an offer for the role you want, than restart the process on another team that you may not work for you.

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Sometimes the person you interview with is super energetic, engaging and enthusiastic leading you to think you're crushing it when in actuality you're failing but they're so used to the process and have done it so many times you could never tell. You think you aced but for them you're a lukewarm maybe. I remember when I was interviewing en masse, we kept afew things top priority: never discuss the session outcome during the session, that's the recruiters job, and always leave the candidate feeling like they had a great session, it prevents or reduces chances of candidates reverse engineering grading criteria and sharing them online and if nothing else leaves bridges un burned so to speak.

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Right and I'm saying if this guys is a gate keeper you're kind of done at this point, hiring manager or not.

3) I wanted an opportunity to meet the hiring manager and hear it from them about my candidacy which is yet to happen


Is this experience common to happen? Did I burn the bridges with this guy for deciding to stay on? I could tell the guy was being polite in the call and didn’t seem super happy towards the end when I decided to move on with the interview process.

Ultimate experience 1: some companies (such as Sysco) will only allow candidates to interview for a single role at a time. They will require that you drop your application for one role if you apply for another. I don’t know if OP’s company would go that far.

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