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There is also a flip side to "must know X language" which are job posts that is in search of applicants who must have 2+ years of Scrum and Pair Programming experience. I've found that this is especially common within Ruby on Rails job posts. Eventually I will get around to trying to practice those techniques on my own, but I don't see how not having those skills disqualifies me from being a potential candidate. I've also been flat out rejected as an applicant for not having experience working on a public facing website, but oh well. I will just have to get around to build a massive public facing website on my own too.