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Job posting requirements are done by a game of telephone where each person down the line is less technical than the previous.
A manager is able to hire a mid-level engineer, which their company defines as 4+ years of experience. An engineer tells the manager what technologies they use, bringing up fastAPI at some point. The manager then gives this list to someone who writes up the job posting who just puts 'requires 4+ years' on every bullet.
Nearly every job posting that asks for more experience than is possible or for something weirdly specific happens this way.
Yup, exactly. The job postings aren’t written by the people who do the job, or even know what the job does.