AssetWatch interview questions

5 rounds: recruiter phone screen, hiring manager interview, interview with potential teammates, panel with other engineering managers, and then final interview with CTO and hiring manager. Mainly culture fit and conceptual knowledge questions. There was a few questions about Python specific knowledge and debugging APIs during the teammate interview. The first four interviews all went well, I had good reception and rapport with each person. The recruiter was very prompt about scheduling the next round each time. I was rejected after meeting the CTO. At the beginning of the interview process, I had been told that this was mainly a culture fit round, but the CTO dug in to my resume. He was not happy that I didn't have perfectly matching experience with the volume and type of data ingestion that the team handled. I received a rejection notice two days later.

Phone screen with recruiter went great. Video call interview with the Hiring Manager also seemed really great, and he told me on the interview that it was good and he was putting me through. Next was panel interview with prospective colleagues. That was just a weird interview, weird vibe. It was very unclear on what they were asking / what they were looking for, and some questions were based on how they do things and seemed confused that other companies don't do it that way, or the processes I've been involved with were different. It just seems odd that an interview can go great with the Hiring Manager, and then fall apart. Finally heard the no-go at the 2 week mark.