Reddit Experience · Mar 2026

Have you ever bombed an interview and still got the job?

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Interview Experience

I believe I bombed my interview. My brain was all over the place and my answers were very vague. And when I go to ChatGPT it tells me I didn’t bomb it, but what I could have done better and provides a

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