"X years of professional experience" requirements can make it difficult to branch out of a stack/space, limiting the pool of opportunities. A vast understateme

"X years of professional experience" requirements can make it difficult to branch out of a stack/space, limiting the pool of opportunities. A vast understatement, especially when applied to specific skills and used as hard cliffs. As anyone with genuine experience knows: nothing could be a more useless metric of actual competence. The people who keep using this phrase (who, ironically, seem to be gainfully employed) need to have their keyboards (or these days, ChatGPT credentials) taken away. Along with the CTOs who put them in their current "role".