If I spoke to your previous supervisor, how would they describe you?

"I was honestly surprised to even get the Google and DeepMind interview, and the process ended up being much lighter and more ambiguous than I expected. After a very standard recruiter screen, I had two short calls: one with the hiring manager that was mostly background, interest in AI, and a light product or growth prompt, and one with a partner on a sister team that mixed behaviorals with a very open-ended "Gemini usage is down" case. I had prepped like crazy for a much tougher consulting-style case and a deeper data exercise, so I left feeling very neutral, not like I crushed it and not like I bombed. One frustrating part was that there was basically no time to ask my own questions, so I learned almost nothing from the interviewers about the real mandate of the role. In the end they told me I was very qualified and they enjoyed the conversations, but I got rejected before moving to the assignment round."