johnnyx9 wrote:
I think at the end of the day it just all depends on their view of a candidate as a whole, going back to my ridiculous dating analogy, there might be a girl who is beautiful, with a great sense of humor, intelligent, talented, successful, but maybe we don't have chemistry (which is maybe semi-analogous to bombing an interview while looking great on paper).
Or maybe there's a really ugly girl who talks really loudly and is very obnoxious, but she happens to be smart and funny at the same time, and maybe my friend is dating her and I'm thinking, "Why is he dating her?" Which might be analogous to someone who nails an interview with so-so paper stats.
All the elements needed to be taken into consideration and candidates are viewed as a "whole" candidate, I'm sure on some level individual elements weigh on an ad-com member's mind, but they can assimilate all the info and get a "gut" impression of whether they want to admit a candidate or not.
What if you met this really cute chick who you just found out is going out with a guy you knew from high-school. You know that the guy is still a dead-beat pushover and are sure that the chick would be much better off with you.
Would you:
a) Try to sabotage their relationship
b) Sleep with the guy's sister (who's kinda cute as well) to spite him?