"or that our question didn’t use the vocabulary they’re familiar with"
I lost out a job interview in 1997 because I wasn't familiar with "state management" for websites. The guy was pretty insistent I needed to know what "state management" was. I'd already sent over a project using session management (and he'd created an account, logged in, I sent him the code, etc), but... I didn't know what 'state management' was, so I was passed over. I wasn't strong enough on the phone (and was in a different country at the time - was worrying about the long distance charges!) and... it fell apart. I was essentially a perfect fit (had had an interview before - this was second interview with someone else), but I choked on that phrase, and they passed me by...
I lost out a job interview in 1997 because I wasn't familiar with "state management" for websites. The guy was pretty insistent I needed to know what "state management" was. I'd already sent over a project using session management (and he'd created an account, logged in, I sent him the code, etc), but... I didn't know what 'state management' was, so I was passed over. I wasn't strong enough on the phone (and was in a different country at the time - was worrying about the long distance charges!) and... it fell apart. I was essentially a perfect fit (had had an interview before - this was second interview with someone else), but I choked on that phrase, and they passed me by...