A friend of mine was interviewing for my old job, but didn’t get it.
He had an in-office interview. He met the office manager and an HR person. They sat in the kitchen where other people were around and he met them too, but they weren’t part of the interview.
My friend says the office manager kept getting up to get the lunch deliveries (there’s usually 3 a day). And then he’d be sitting there with the other people and it’d be awkward.
After getting rejected, he asked for feedback, the recruiter said it was his communication. My friend doesn’t have a problem communicating. He’s a charismatic dude who I worked with twice before.