These days it probably starts when you're born, the amount of data they can dig up has got to be close to astounding.

Which door? In this case OP seems to have outwitted the FBI, since the candidate is being surveiled the moment they left their own home.

A thought.

US agencies but private corporation's data on people, such as the CDC recently, on mobile phones.

With livingrooms bugged via smart TVs, and virtual assistants(alexa, etc), leaving the house may not be necessary.

The FBI will go door to door talking to your neighbors. I know this, because I was a neighbor.

The FBI has a bar inside their offices?

I think the comment was more that the interview doesn't stop when you leave the office...

I was joking mainly but it also sounded like a potential good story!

British Intelligence has bars inside their offices. In fact the British security services are basically an oxbridge drinking society.

I’m reminded of http://home.xnet.com/~warinner/pizzacites.html where a spike in pizza delivery at the Pentagon would foretell major events.

Are the pubs meant to train new operatives to avoid awkward situations like this? https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/inglourious-bast...

My brother was in the USMC and was a bit jealous that the Australian Navy guys had pubs on their ships.

Probably they are thinking of the cop bar likely around the corner from whichever building the interview happens at.

But in my experience job interviews can also be successfully concluded in similar places on occasion, although perhaps more often started.