I had an interview for an SRE position. It quickly became clear that the company and I were not a good fit, as they were looking for someone to focus exclusively on monitoring. In reality, the role was more of an Observability Engineer than an SRE. Not many companies differentiate between these roles, so it's not a major issue. The interview itself went fine, but the feedback I received afterward was truly surprising. It stated that I lacked sufficient knowledge in development and in maintaining high-load systems. What struck me as odd was that during the interview, we didn’t discuss these topics at all, nor was I asked a single question related to them. Either the company uses a generic feedback template, or the interviewer provided feedback based on their own assumptions about my experience. Either way, it’s not a great look for the company to give such feedback without any basis.