My own experience with "X years of Foo" hiring is that for a time, I was quite knowledgable about Java and the JVM, having worked on some very successful Java d

My own experience with "X years of Foo" hiring is that for a time, I was quite knowledgable about Java and the JVM, having worked on some very successful Java development tooling. But all too often, I met with resistance when looking at Java opportunities because my résumé didn't have the right buzzword bingos for the gating process. I found it difficult to even get an interview with some companies! Thankfully, things ended up working out in my favour.