Or it might have been the classic "husband-and-wife squabble": one of the partners really liked you (possibly not someone in the interview), then convinced the rest (who disagreed) to give you a shot. The others came in pre-biased to reject you, but willing to be just polite enough to appease your advocate partner.
If you really aced the interview, you'd never know it. They'd still dislike you. But they wouldn't be able to say no, since they knew they'd have to tell your advocate what happened in the interview--so they'd give you a "we'll get back to you." Then, later that day, the interviewers and the advocate have a huge argument on the real merits of your company. Your fate hangs in the balance of that argument.
If you've ever run a garage sale, you'll have seen this all play out in real-time on your lawn. :)
If you really aced the interview, you'd never know it. They'd still dislike you. But they wouldn't be able to say no, since they knew they'd have to tell your advocate what happened in the interview--so they'd give you a "we'll get back to you." Then, later that day, the interviewers and the advocate have a huge argument on the real merits of your company. Your fate hangs in the balance of that argument.
If you've ever run a garage sale, you'll have seen this all play out in real-time on your lawn. :)