The interview process was smooth. HR kept me well informed. My technical interview (which is basically a techno-managerial discussion in case of project managers) went great. All the questions were around Agile and ITIL. I managed to correctly answer more than 90 percent of the questions asked. I was more than confident that I would make it through. But I received a call not more than 1 hour later stating I am not selected. I was surprised. One thing I understood from the rejection comments was that 1 question decided my fate and that was DOD (Definition of done). I got a little confused and besides it being an interview from Project Management skill, this became the deciding factor. I mean I was never asked about the project planning or stakeholder management. Thinking back I am not even sure which skill the interview was for? I wonder if they were looking for a scrum master. Even if they did, how did this question have so much weightage?

1. Technical 2. Managerial (most probably RM) 3. Project fitment The job title and what they exactly looking for are quite misaligned. They seem to have committed to a certain timeline for a project that involves Mainframe migration. They need a mainframes engineer... instead of hiring one who can actually help them with code reviews and COBOL reverse engineering as they call it, they are hiring business analysts and trying to get this done under pressure. HR is inefficient and doesn't have a voice, just does what the hiring manager says.