> No other profession expects this. I don't think this is the case (anecdotal evidence from friends and family in varied professions) I think the problem is t

> No other profession expects this. I don't think this is the case (anecdotal evidence from friends and family in varied professions) I think the problem is that there seems to be an expectation of knowledge of the exact technologies. I have to say that lately I have seen a lot more: X or equivalent but this might be related to devops engineer job adverts where maybe they've realised that the tools are similar enough that you can get up to speed quickly enough between them ...