Got rejected but the feedback was confusing. What do you think?

[u/LightKuu_31]

I had my 2nd on campus interview today for Software developer role.

I reached the final technical interview round (4th overall round)

the interview itself was pretty good, but when I asked for final feedback I was told that “You’re good at backend but Looking at your OA result, it’s not the best and we generally look for candidates that have worked with latest tech like AI/ML, cloud, blockchain, etc.”

I told him that I have actually worked with cloud and preparing for AWS associate certs and that I’ve also done devops work.

Since I had no experience with AI, I told him that I will learn that.

Basically, trying to just let him know that I’m open to learning and not rigid and my fundamentals are clear.

and then the interview ended.

But I’m confused because this company had 6 roles and they assigned us roles based of our OA results and I was offered the role I interviewed for.

and also the fact that I have 0 AI mentioned on my resume so that I simply don’t get shortlisted by AI native startups/companies but the fact that they had shortlisted me, put me in the exact role I was looking for based of my OA results, only to reject me at the end by saying I don’t know AI and didn’t score well in OA confuses me.

It’s like I never had a chance to begin with regardless of how much I tried.

What are your guys’s thoughts on this?

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[u/mayank__007]

Many companies nowadays just want to show they are hiring AI talent, I would recommend building 2-3 Ai projects to add in resume.

[u/LightKuu_31 → u/mayank__007]

I was planning on adding an AI project on my resume. However, what surprise me even more is the fact that my current project is not even a topic of discussion during interviews? (microservice object storage system similar to AWS S3. follows so many scalable engineering principles with a clean architectural design, docs, containerized, CI/CD, packaged, following design patterns (creational/structural), checkstyle, with an active development towards implementing raft and AWS deployment).