"Moving forward with other candidates" — recycled, not rejected
SDE II·Onsite·2026
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The "recycled not rejected" distinction is real and meaningful. Passed the bar, lost the seat. That is a very different starting point for the next attempt.
The other-team conversations evaporating quietly is the part that is hard to process. They said there were options and then there were not.