The interview was set up by a coordinator. We agreed to have the phone call on Thursday afternoon. Thursday afternoon came and went and i got no phone call. I sent an e-mail to the coordinator to ask why, and she said she'd find out. the next day she asked if we can re-schedule it. We re-scheduled for Monday morning. The interview was conducted for the hiring manager for the data engineer position. She asked what in my experience made me think I'd be a good fit for the position. The position sounds like an ETL position, and I had been a Performance Engineer and Software Engineer for many years. I mentioned that as a performance engineer, among the things i have to do is populated the databases with large quantities of data so that SQL queries would be against tables with completely filled with data. Sometimes that was just test data, sometimes it was real data that came from other sources. I may use Java, Linux Shell Scripts, PL/SQL or some other tool to manipulate the data into the proper format. Although I don't call this "Data Engineering" i believe it is effectively the same thing. But this was not my primary job, it was a precondition to doing my primary job. I also mentioned that i have a friend whose family owns a business that gets a data feed from a vendor. They needed to continuously get that data into their database. In Python, I wrote the process to parse the incoming data and transform it into the proper format to get it into the companies database. Drilling Info seems to primarily use Python, but when i do my work, Python is just one of many tools i might use. At the end of this interview, the manager seemed to be pretty pleased. And asked if i had any questions. I asked why she didn't ask about experience with SSIS ( which was prominently featured in their job posting ). She said that's because no one seems to have experience with it, and asked if i have. I said that since it was listed in their job posting i downloaded and installed a developer version of SQLServer, SSIS, SSDT and went through a "how to create your first package" tutorial, which was pretty easy and not very realistic. So i then tried to re-implement the work I did for my friend's company. The work to several days but taught me a LOT more about how SSIS actually works. Do although i don't have any professional experience with SSIS, I have now been exposed to it. She asked about my salary expectations, and when i told her she said that it was within their budget. She seemed very impressed that I was willing to go that far and learn that much for this job. She mentioned that the job i applied for was a mid-level position and said she thought i'd be a better fit for senior position. The senior position was under another manager, however. So she would set up another phone interview with the other manager. And at the end she asked if i new where there office was. I told her that I did as I had been there before. She asked why, and i told her that i new another employee. She asked who the other employee was and i told her. A few days later i got a call about the second interview. the second manager ( for the senior position) sounded completely negative from the very beginning. She didn't ask many questions so I basically tried to tell her the same kind of information we discussed in the first interview. A few days later i got an e-mail response that they chose a different candidate. The odd part was that apparently there were several positions, a senior position and a mid-level position. I don't know exactly what happened, but i wondered if the fact that i had a friend who worked there is why I didn't get either position. Not sure.