[BSousa]

Can I ask where (location) was this?

I have trouble understanding how someone would call himself a JS developer and not knowing it.

I'm not at all a JS developer (even though lately I've been knees deep in nodeJS code) and most of my experience is away from the browser, but even I knew this. I was responsible for hiring at a previous company and I did see some people passing as Senior SQL developers without knowing how to do a join correctly, but I always passed it as a local thing (culture here is as long as you graduated you don't need to learn anything new) but not in other more competitive places.

[steven777400]

A state government agency about 2 hours south of Seattle, WA. What happens is that Microsoft, Amazon, etc can offer 50 to 100 percent higher salaries and more interesting problems than we can, so most of the really skilled devs go there (I don't blame them). So out pickings are almost always slim.