You're completely right of course, we hire people who we believe are the top 5% of the applicant pool. The point remains the same: what a company says about the

You're completely right of course, we hire people who we believe are the top 5% of the applicant pool. The point remains the same: what a company says about their hiring standards has little or no bearing on what their standards actually are in the context of the entire universe of software engineers (or any other field)