> To me it seems ridiculous that employers can require such an amount of breadth and depth of knowledge. To be quite honest, those are generally nice-to-haves

> To me it seems ridiculous that employers can require such an amount of breadth and depth of knowledge. To be quite honest, those are generally nice-to-haves instead of must-haves. Yet, if within a pool of 20 candidates there are 2 or 3 which fulfill the nice-to-haves, obviously they are going to stand out among their competitors. If you need to fill in positions and you stumble on a candidate that meets all your requirements, are you going to pass him over to pick the inexperienced candidate who has zero experience with your tech stack?