This Bengaluru Recruiter Rejected A Rs 40 LPA Candidate For Being ‘Too Logical'

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Instead of offering a practical or intuitive response, the candidate took the question a bit too seriously, and he answered it with a logical explanation.
A Bengaluru-based recruiter has sparked widespread discussion online after revealing an unusual reason for rejecting a candidate. In a now-viral LinkedIn post, the interviewer, Sandeep Lokanath, shared that he turned down a product manager applicant for a Rs 40 LPA role. The reason? He attempted to explain the city's unpredictable weather—"too logically".
Sandeep Lokanath shared a post on LinkedIn and narrated how a simple, seemingly quirky question in the interview turned into an unexpected deal-breaker. The question was, 'How many days in a year should someone carry an umbrella in Bengaluru?"
Instead of offering a practical or intuitive response, the candidate took the question a bit too seriously, and he answered it with a logical explanation. The interviewer further revealed, 'Whips out a notepad. Talks about monsoon trends, probability distributions, historical rainfall data, commute hour segmentation, complex test scenarios… and then proudly says, 'So, 55.7 days, with a 95 per cent confidence interval.'"
But rather than being impressed, the interviewer looked at him and responded, 'Wrong."
In the post, he goes on to explain why this hyper-rational answer didn't land well. 'Bengaluru is not just another city. You don't calculate rain here. You sense it in your bones. You carry an umbrella even on a sunny day, just in case," Sandeep wrote, pointing to the city's unpredictable weather patterns.
He clarified that the candidate wasn't rejected due to poor math skills. In his post, the recruiter explained that the candidate was turned down because he attempted to 'reduce Bengaluru, a city of clouds, gardens, and surprises, to just another dot on the map."
Speaking of Bengaluru rains, the city has officially logged its wettest May on record, with a cumulative rainfall of 307.9 mm between May 1 and May 26 (as of 11:30 am), according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). This breaks the previous record of 305.4 mm set in May 2023. With the IMD predicting light to moderate showers until May 31, Bengalureans might want to keep those umbrellas close.
Prior to this, IMD data showed that May 2022 held the record with 270.4 mm of rainfall, followed by May 2017 with 241.9 mm and May 2018 with 239.8 mm.
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