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Ninety Minutes, Rejected on Salary, Then the Job Reposted

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90-minute interviewRejected — salaryRole reposted with his own input

The candidate sat a ninety-minute interview for a role, was rejected over salary, and then watched the company repost the job with the requirements rewritten to include the detail he had supplied during the conversation.

A rejection on money is ordinary; the sequence afterwards is the story. The same role went back up at the same salary, now carrying the approach the candidate had explained in the room. The interview had already established that the number was the obstacle, so the listing returned with the number unchanged and the job description improved by ninety minutes of unpaid conversation with somebody who was not hired.

The company is not named in the post. The pattern, the author notes, is the part worth knowing: describe how you would do the work in the interview, and the advert may remember it even if the employer does not.

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