sandwich ==> kind thoughts
a glass of Coke ==> prayers (A reverent petition made to God)

Hmmm.

One could also pray that their nerves not be shot while waiting.

I can see that you praying might, given your beliefs, help calm your nerves but the idea that a bunch of people scattered round the World praying on your behalf would have any effect stretches my credulity. If it did, it would mean the most nerve calming would go to whoever had accumulated the greatest quantity and quality of prayers in God's judgement. Anyway, you'd already had the interview.

Or that the people making the decision do not unfairly prejudice against them in any way.

So you're asking us to pray that the best person gets the job on their own merits. Good. (But it might not be you.)

But these are things that believers talk about; probably atheists don't think about the various meanings and objects of prayer, since they don't pray. But they do jump to conclusions, don't they?

I have no idea what atheists think. I find their position even more absurd than believers. To define yourself by something you believe in is an understandable position even if I don't share that belief. To define yourself by something you don't believe in seems bizarre. I don't believe in Blurquahal but I don't agonise over it or define myself as an ablurquahalist.

Perhaps, as a believer, potential adjunct professor of philosophy and expert on epistemology, you could enlighten us as to the various meanings and objects of prayer.