Was asked to go to interview at an anti virus company. Looking someone with extensive Amazon aws experience. Told them I had none, company was aware and wanted to see me anyway. 3 separate interviews to go through; Got through round 1 and round 2 of the interviews got rejected at round three because u didn't have aws experience!!!! Like wtf..... Why waste my time like that!!

Sounds like you had some internal champions rooting for you, thinking you were strong with great potential to learn but then last round some higher up was like "why did you bring this guy in, I said we needed AWS" The hiring process involves different people with different priorities, they rarely are fully aligned (to everyone's detriment)

@trogus probably, just don't appreciate my time being wasted

@bluescreen the process is exactly as @trogus mentioned actually, been there done that. I have been involved in some interviews myself (part of a panel that conducted the interviews) and everyone in the panel is looking for something different. Since I am pretty junior in the company, I was not exactly worried about the guys expertise, but more interested in his ability to fit in and how he collaborates with others, whether we spoke the same way or shared the same value (we were gna work as colleagues and I saw an amazing potential in the guy, so I recommended he go through to the next rounds). But upper management usually don't care about that, they have a plan, usually they hire someone for a specific purpose or to start off on a specific project first for instance, and hence they needed that skill. Everyone looks for something different.

@bluescreen But don't get discouraged, the very fact you made it to next rounds means you have something, (maybe not everything) but something that they found attractive in you, in your case you knew what they wanted and was missing, and since you tapped into the market and see that this skill was required, learn it on your own time ;)

Add it to your CV and reapply, fill the gaps one by one and your hard work will pay off sooner or later.

Also going back to the interviews, when I was applying for the job I am in right now, the primary focus was Java, simply because they needed to urgently close up a project in Java, so they kept asking for it, and I showed them that I did Java coding before. That only lasted for 2 weeks or so. Haven't seen Java since (that was last year). Now its primarily web projects ;)

It was a few years ago. I've moved on and now gave a far better job leading a great team of devs kinda glad that I didn't get it now to be honest 😀

@bluescreen That's awesome then! I thought this was recent! Congrats! :)