You're faced with conflicting feedback from interviewers. How do you navigate the emotional impact?

Interviews are not a one way street. Candidates should be assessing the company they may be working for in an interview, not just allowing themselves to be assessed. It is entirely possible that conflicting feedback could mean the company itself doesn't know what they want for the role or the person in it. This could be a red flag for you to consider. That doesn't mean their feedback couldn't be helpful to you when trying to improve your interviewing skills, but it can equally be a reason for you to do a deeper dive into the role to see if it is still the right potential role for you. If management doesn't know what they want, it could make it difficult for you to be successful.

Conflicting feedback shows that feedback is not always objective. Differing feedback on different areas would be cause for reflection and constructive discussions, but where feedback conflicts directly, it is really personal opinion,

Understanding a feedback is a cumulative feedback from a team of interviewer is first thing to understand. If its an individual feedback then there is not need to reflect immediately and if it's a common feedback of a team of interviewer then there is a need of assessment and clarification with comparison.

1. Try to understand why such feedbacks are given (It could be your personality test as well, as an interview is not just answers responded, you are watched and assessed on the whole) Keep calm and hear fully. 2.Check if there is any misunderstanding or miscommunication, sort them if there is any 3.Take it progressively, ask them to give a constructive feedback and help you to grow with the insights they have 4. Take the worthy concerns seriously and start working on it.

Seeking clarity is only possible if you are able to identify the root cause of specific conflict. Interviewer will never be accepting that the feedback provided is conflicting. However a genuine attempt is always possible to get more clarity whether conflict is due to skills, personality, behaviour or something else.

Accepting every feedback as an opportunity to grow is the only key there is no place for becoming emotional when its related to professionalism.

When and if you get multiple conflicting feedback for a similar kind of candidate. yes comparison is required to intersect a common factor creating or diverting interviewer for providing conflicting feedback.