Had a hiring manager round for engineering manager role in data last week. It was a regular questions and felt it was No brainer to go into panel interviews, I got shocking news that hiring manager felt I am not good fit I didnot get any reason about the gap in skills, experience and the need of the role as well. Can somebody tell me what it can be in this kind of situations?
Unfortunately companies will almost never give you an honest reason, so all you can do is guess. Some common mistakes that I see: imprecise communication (too verbose in answers), lack of broad experience, or not meeting the technical bar.
Untrained interviewers are often times looking for "their answer", not the right answer. Sometimes they have a rubric and expect you to hit the points of their rubric serendipitously through normal conversation and not by guidance. I do System Design interviews, and I have passed people that my shadow did not for these reasons. In the end, interviews are random in a way. You get good interviewers, you get bad. Now I am not saying that is the case, but it is a possibility. I interviewed with Asana years ago, and yeah, they were pretty terrible.
Not a match for the role. Asana is cultish so you need to blend in their culture as well.
Can you tell me about the Asana culture?