The hiring manager sent me a message saying that she is really interested in my background and the current role at Netflix perfectly suits my profile. I agreed and she scheduled the phone screening round. In the phone screening round I was asked three questions, one on coding (merge two sorted arrays), two SQL questions, and describe the steps to build a classifier. When I illustrated the steps he/she asked further questions on describing Logistic Regression in details, describe gradient descent, L1 and L2 norms, if data is sparse what happens, difference between online and batch gradient descent, word embeddings and sentence embeddings. I thought I did fairly well considering all the questions were expected from a standard data science interview. However, I got a confirmation email from the recruiter that they rejected me saying that the feedback was positive however I am not an appropriate fit for the role. When I asked for further clarification they said they have better candidates than me. Here is my problem is that they connected me saying that I am proper fit. My interview went well and now they say I am not a fit. So, I was a bit surprise and it also tells me not trust such hiring managers who have conflicting opinions.