Got a feedback from recruitment process – boils down to “be more privileged”

So, I applied for a job in an inclusive “woke” tech company that makes a social impact. The whole process took 2 months and I met 110% of their expectations included in the job ad. I could do what they wanted and add a little extra.

Of course there was a question “why do you want to work here?”

I looked at them, they were more or less my age – late millenials. I'm not going to sell them the bullshit that I would sell to boomers – that I wanted to work fot this company since I was 12. I will be transparent – I'll just tell the truth.

So I said the truth: “I want to move to X-city and build a professional network there. This is my professional goal. You are looking for someone to implement a new program in X-city and build a network there. My skills perfectly match this position, I did it before. It seems like a match made in heaven”. They kept grilling me about my previous experience for most of the interview, so I barely had time to ask questions.

I got a reply today and a feedback. Apparently I was too focused on my own goals, not enough on the company goals.

I am angry, I am heartbroken and really really dissapointed. This judgement was SO UNFAIR. It was based on a principle that says that the employee should put the company's benefit before his/her own – I was expected to say I want to work there because they do fantastic things. And I could have said it – if I was privileged enough not to care about my personal goals and development. If my daddy gave me money, car and house, I could do this work for free and get paid with satisfaction. But I'm a working class girl. I work and earn or die.

Until today I had two positive biases:

• one was that millenial and gen-z companies are more understanding for working class people who have to put their own benefit first, or they won't be able to survive. This is not true. The “young” companies are as bad as the ones ran by fat white 50 years old males.
• The other one was that interviews make sense and it's possible to find out if somenoe would be a good match in just 60 minutes – the whole feedback about me was just fundamentally wrong. In general it was positive, but two red flags they listed were just not about me – I got completely misjudged.