It has been literally decades since I last encountered it. In any case the title has exactly nothing to do with job listings or what may be inferred from them.
> Experience using scripting languages such as bash, Python, and PowerShell, or compiled languages such as C/C++, C# and Go are most relevant, but others are acceptable
"Software Engineer, Core, Compilers, Runtimes and Toolchains" @ Google
So, you are saying that clueless HR people are employed at such very large companies as NVidia, Microsoft, Google, Apple, IBM, AMD, and ARM? I'll bet you can find cigarette smokers working in them, too. And Russian Empire sympathizers.
If you ever had a point, you lost it some time ago.