I think mylons had the perception that you were a senior engineer conducting technical interviews as opposed to a hiring manager. Having had a fair bit of expe

I think mylons had the perception that you were a senior engineer conducting technical interviews as opposed to a hiring manager. Having had a fair bit of experience interviewing on the technical side, I've observed a huge variance in quality of interviewer. Sometimes you get someone who values communication, creative problem solving and asking good questions. Sometimes you get a whiz kid who gets off on playing gatekeeper and judging people as below their superior intellect. Even a single person in the chain who falls into that latter group can completely derail a potential hire, leading to an overabundance of false negatives, IMO.