Exactly. I've had interviews I've conducted where we had one open position, and ended up between a couple good candidates. I would have been fine hiring any of

Exactly. I've had interviews I've conducted where we had one open position, and ended up between a couple good candidates. I would have been fine hiring any of them, but we only needed one person, so we selected the one that felt like the best skills fit for exactly what we needed. I've also had companies be open about it the other way - they liked me a lot, I had most of the experience they were looking for, but someone else came along and had all of the boxes checked for them, and thus would probably be able to require a lot less ramp-up time than I would, even if we would have probably both been fine in the role within 6 months. I can't blame them for that.