[bsbechtel]

That's partially because job postings are an SEO play, so that long list of requirements is more about trying to get as many eyeballs as possible on the page. Job postings used to be as short as possible because you were paying per line in the newspaper. Search engines changed that.

[kozhevnikov]

That doesn't make sense. They can just move all those requirements from 'required' to 'desired' section and get the same SEO out of it.

[arvinsim]

Small companies looking for a qualified person will bother. Large companies with hundreds of applicants won’t bother.