I went through the hoops recently for a technical support role for a large company that makes NAS appliances. I was given an in by a friend already working the

I went through the hoops recently for a technical support role for a large company that makes NAS appliances. I was given an in by a friend already working there as she personally had my resume forwarded to her manager and joked "he's used Gentoo for 15 years, he can do this" Despite years upon years of experience, the final hiring manager round believed I "wasn't interested" in the role because I "didn't ask any questions about the company" During said interview (a forth round of interviews) I had admitted that I'd either asked everything I wanted to know either to the employee who referred me, or the managers in previous rounds. As an absolutely neurodivergent person I was quite surprised by this response. In my own mind I would have thought "I've been picking the brain of your employee for weeks" would have demonstrated quite a high level of interest. Sadly as they say I "didn't play the interview game" and thus have come up short