It's pretty common. Interviewing is a messed up process. I recently interviewed at a company, did really well, so much so that when they rejected me, the recru

It's pretty common. Interviewing is a messed up process. I recently interviewed at a company, did really well, so much so that when they rejected me, the recruiter reached out to say, flat out, "you did really well; the hiring committee spent an hour debating between you and another candidate before finally going with that other candidate". Fair enough. I applied for other roles, got into one of those, that recruiter saw the notes from the prior interview and went "why the heck didn't we hire this person?!" got me to talk to the hiring manager...who was like "nah". It really is getting pretty much universal thumbs up, and with a large panel that is statistically hard to do.