Just did a network engineer role for a Fortune 500 and am confused.

Hey all, I had a network engineering final technical interview (2 total, passed the phone and HM screen prior) and I am left confused on how I feel about it.

It seems to me that companies don’t know what they want to hire for? The company specifically wants a Network Engineer but during the interview they asked more about react skills and general SWE like questions.

Now, I’m not saying that programming skills isn’t nice to have. But none of this was mentioned in the job description. It didn’t help that one interviewer said “We are looking to hire a unicorn.”

Has anyone else applied for a tech role that turned out to be a SWE role just titled differently? I studied all of my CCNA topics apparently for nothing as they were more interesting in agile methodology experience.

Thoughts?