I recently got turned down from a team lead role at AWS and the only feedback i got was that I seemed technically strong and understood performance management in theory but had not performance managed enough members of my team. The problem i have with this is that IMHO if I'm performance managing someone it's more than likely mine or the organisations failing; we've hired or promoted someone into the wrong role, or we've created an environment for failure or something had drastically changed in the individuals life. Fortunately for me these have not really happened to any great extent but that was unfortunate for my AWS interview.

I've a suspicion that I rubbed the group lead the wrong as I asked him a couple of times, non confrontationally and from a place of genuine interest, what he did to set the direction of the group and he didn't really have any answer, still not sure what he actually does.