I had about 9 total interviews for an SE role. I made my shortcomings very apparent from the start and they kept pushing me through the process. After several interviews and spending about 50 hours preparing a demo and then the demo itself, I didn't have enough AppSec experience. But another team wanted to interview me for a less specialized SE role. Again, I made my shortcomings apparent. In this case I didn't have enough DevOps experience. I had used this tool in previous roles and knew it well. All in- I spent about 60 hours total between demo prep/demo/interviews and didn't get the job because of shortcomings I made clear up front. I have a lot of the other skills required, but I think they were culling looking for a unicorn candidate. I love the company & product, but don't think I'll apply for another job at Dynatrace.

It was rushed with two interviewers only given 30 mins. They wanted a unicorn candidate. Infrastructure expertise with Java experience. This person does not exist. They should have searched for a Java Programmer, but that person would NOT have the expertise in Infrastructure (Server, Storage, Network & virtualization)