The interview process began with a screening call from a recruiter, followed by a relatively short technical interview conducted by another engineering manager. Most of the questions were very open-ended.

In the end, the feedback was that I had impressed them, but that my technical experience and strengths seemed to be in other areas than what they needed for the role in question. This was a bit confusing, as they had not asked any questions specific to the area I later learned they considered core, an area with which I am also very familiar. The cases I mentioned apparently led to me being pigeonholed as something else.

My advice based on this interview would be to especially highlight and emphasize things you suspect they might be looking for when faced with open-ended questions, at least if you are broad enough to know more than one area well.

This format is mostly "describe a situation when X occurred."