Well-known industrial grade IT hardware company about 15 years ago. Position required A,B,C,D experience. Made it very clear that I had no direct 'D' experience

Well-known industrial grade IT hardware company about 15 years ago. Position required A,B,C,D experience. Made it very clear that I had no direct 'D' experience in both resume and three phone interviews. They still wanted an on-site interview. VP of engineering was very aggressive and abrasive and dismissive of me because of no direct 'D' experience, and he asked "Why the fuck did you apply for this position?" I remained calm and explained this had been discussed with his first two levels of managers and we decided it was easily mitigate given the initial projects scheduled. He said something about "other missing qualifications" then abruptly departed. The remaining three managers said no problem and that we should continue interview. I told them that their dishonesty about job requirements was disappointing and that the interview was terminated and to immediately call in my minder for my departure from site. Friends at the company later informed me that the interview was done only as requirement per HR and that I was their first choice. The good - avoided working for a jerk, and was able to inform my industry sector what was going on at this company. My then employer never knew that I was interviewing elsewhere, and received a raise and new title two months later and was able to do some really great stuff over the next four years. The bad - I got a reputation for being a 'difficult' person to interview (my engineering specialization is very small, and most of know or know of each other).