[boarnoah]

Anecdotal, but I was involved in technical interviews for a full stack developer position within a team last year.

Our stack at the time was transitioning to .NET Core, but the HR posting was some generic one (I believe for a "full-stack dev" with PHP experience).

Got a bizarre range of candidates who had got past the inital filtering, all except one whose PHP amounted to wordpress only experience (some who were not able to clearly differentiate between serverside and clientside state or logic).

Don't want to tar folks with the same brush, but that experience led me to believe the folks who got filtered through for possessing PHP experience, in this case, were extremely bottom of the barrel.

[pavel_lishin]

Honestly, if I'm ever in charge of hiring, I will probably be heavily biased against anyone who mentions having PHP experience without a deep, regretful sigh as an accompaniment.