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Having been involved a bit with screening candidates, I'm not even convinced that interviewers or hiring managers are routinely clear with themselves about why they do or don't hire somebody. It seems more like a feeling that is rationalized afterward.

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I strongly agree that this is true in a lot of cases, and the ahead-of-time rationalization of limiting liability helps to perpetuate the lack of necessity of a clear, defensible reason for rejection.

I say this as a hiring manager, by the way, knowing full well that nothing involving the hiring process is as clean and straightforward as anyone involved wants it to be.

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