The problem as I've experienced it is they hire you based on the code example from the interview and then the actual job requires you to know all the orchestrat

The problem as I've experienced it is they hire you based on the code example from the interview and then the actual job requires you to know all the orchestration components (puppet, chef, kubernetes, package manager and system settings, etc) to bootstrap the virtual machine OS or cloud component that then will require you to know the particular OS distro CLI or cloud API to then run the code upon. In my experience, I spend 80% of my time just figuring out how to get the code to run safely and properly and then chugging through the "stack" part of the full stack programmer before I'm even able to run my code at scale. The actual code itself tends to be simple. Sometimes already existing in a very fleshed out and optimized library, sometimes even core to the language itself. It's really more endemic of more the prevalent problem that what HR thinks programming tends to not be what programmers actually do.