It started with an HR interview before moving to and interview with two of the hiring managers who were looking for someone with time series forecasting experience. I was honest with them about my sills and experience. In particular I told them I did not have much experience with deep learning (neural networks) but I did have a lot more experience with traditional time series forecasting methods. They gave me a large take home project to complete over 5 days. I spent a lot of time on it and used numerous different foresting techniques. When the time came to review my work they seemed completely focused on the fact that I didn't use deep learning to solve the problem. Of course I didn't! I told them a million times that I don't have experience with neural networks, but neural networks arn't the end all be all of forecasting. They were completely uninterested in the work I did and a week later I was rejected for "having skills limited to statistics and not deep learning." If they had actually read my resume and listened to me tell them multiple times that I don't have deep learning experience then they would not have wasted so much of my free time with their big project and multiple interviews. It was a frustrating experience.