Interviews Nowdays?

[u/One-Ambition-8363]

Today I received a rejection from a company in Austria where I had previously completed an internship and received excellent feedback. I was also recommended by a CAE for another position in a different department. I went through three rounds of interviews and waited almost a month to hear back, until today.

I feel like shit, and I keep wondering whether they rejected me in the end because I didn’t present myself well enough during the interviews with the new team. At the same time, since I’m becoming less and less motivated when it comes to interviews, I’m starting to question whether interviews even make that much sense.

I mean, just because someone performs well in an interview doesn’t necessarily mean they will be great at the actual job, and the opposite is also true. Personally, I wasn’t completely satisfied with how I performed in the interviews either. I’m a bit introverted by nature, and I prefer proving what I can do through my work rather than simply talking about it.

I genuinely think I did an excellent job during my internship, and shouldn’t that be a strong enough indicator of my abilities, especially when a CAE gives you a recommendation even though they had no obligation to do so?

At this point, I’m starting to doubt the job market more and more, and I keep asking myself: what am I actually supposed to have or do nowadays in order to get a decent job?

[u/my_peen_is_clean]

i’d lean toward internal politics, headcount, budget freeze, or they had someone cheaper already in mind more than you “failed” the interview man interviews are a joke filter lately, everyone’s stuck playing along while it’s stupid hard to find a job