> I explained, from first principals, how it fits, and received feedback along the lines of "our engineers agreed with your technical assessment, but that's not

> I explained, from first principals, how it fits, and received feedback along the lines of "our engineers agreed with your technical assessment, but that's not the answer we wanted, so we're going to pass". I've had this experience a good handful of times. Probably a better outcome than being hired onto a team where everyone know you're technically correct but they ignore your suggestions for some mysterious (to you) reason.