&gt; I&#x27;d say I had a 10% offer rate. The most common &quot;why didn&#x27;t you select me?&quot; follow up answer I got was &quot;we need someone who is an expert in XYZ language.&quot;<p>I would think this is something that should have been made clear from the get-go in the initial technical phone interview.<p>Anyone who goes to an in-person interview should expect, at minimum, that the interviewers have done their homework.<p>For example, if they just want Stanford or MIT grads, fine. But to bring someone into an interview - which may involve more than a day of travel, lost vacation time etc - just to tell them they went to the wrong college afterwards, that&#x27;s plain infuriating and shows complete lack of courtesy.