I had idiot gatekeepers in HR departments who demanded more years of software experience than the software had even existed.
The only way I see a way out of it is to play their game. Identify as a woman and Injun and sue the crap out of them when they refuse to hire you for your “identity.”
> I had idiot gatekeepers in HR departments who demanded more years of software experience than the software had even existed.
I’ll see you and raise you. I once ran into an HR putz who blocked me for never having studied a certain technology in college, when I was on the team that *invented* that technology!