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Byron Stevens's avatar

I had exacly the same experience in Silicon Valley many many years ago. Went through all the remote interviews layer by layer, everyone was excited, then flew down (from Canada) for the in person with the whole team, walked into the room and everyone was talking. The room fell totally silent. The rest pretty much as you describe, except being desparate I didn’t think to walk out…

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Ro's avatar

I was disappointed that they didn’t call you back to explain themselves.

Recognising my own mistakes and fixing them promptly is one important way I learned.

When I saw people who believed that they couldn’t make mistakes or didn’t own up promptly it always led me to lose trust in them.

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