It's often not clear what qualifications for a role really are - I think most of us have accepted roles where we had to learn "required" things on the job. Or w

It's often not clear what qualifications for a role really are - I think most of us have accepted roles where we had to learn "required" things on the job. Or where one of the requirements was a joke, liking knowing how to use some random tool or software (internal wiki, expensing system, etc.) that anyone could pick up in 15 minutes. Especially in tech. I've personally gotten jobs in languages I didn't know yet a couple times. I do agree that for any given job a large chunk of applicants are people who have no business applying (IE barely capable coding themselves out of a paper bag or didn't read the job description), but there's always a long tail of plausible applicants if the job isn't a trash posting.