That's actually the reason I got confused with the original comment I replied to. The author said he 'passed' the interview and then got rejected by committee,

That's actually the reason I got confused with the original comment I replied to. The author said he 'passed' the interview and then got rejected by committee, and the only committee 'after' passing the interview is the VP/SVP review. In reality he did not actually passed the interview, he might have just gotten a relatively good feedback from the interviewers.