Interview loop

Loops look repetitive from the outside and are usually deliberate: each interviewer is assigned a dimension — craft, collaboration, judgment, domain depth — and writes independent feedback before the panel discusses. That's why the same question appears twice and why an answer that landed with one person seems new to the next.

Two practical consequences. First, ask the recruiter what each session covers; they'll almost always tell you, and preparing per-session beats preparing generically. Second, repeat your strongest material. Interviewers who didn't hear it don't know it, and consistency across independent write-ups is exactly what a hiring committee reads as signal.

The debrief is where the decision happens, often within a day or two of the last session. Silence past the timeline you were given is more often a process problem — a missing write-up, a scheduling conflict, a competing candidate finishing their loop — than a decision that's already gone against you.