Asking for X years experience in a technology that is Y years old: X > Y Seeing cookie-cutter job descriptions (companies always talk about keeping CVs short,

Asking for X years experience in a technology that is Y years old: X > Y Seeing cookie-cutter job descriptions (companies always talk about keeping CVs short, so why do they let recruiters write out template-style blocks of text try to magically explain what a great company it is without just saying the name - in fact, if you are bothered enough, you can work backwards and figure out the company)