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@airwhale @inthehands This has also been a bit hard for me as an #ActuallyAutistic person who's worked in software development and adjacent fields for a while.

I know exactly what sort of knowledge and skill indicated by "X years of experience doing Y" tends to look like in practice.

I have also seen, or have been in, situations where not *literally* having the exact specified experience (or more) would be anywhere from extremely unpleasant to disastrous, even if the rest of the job was fine. So there are times where it's safe, and even desirable (if the rest of the job looks like a good match to skills and experience) to ignore them ... and other times where it very much isn't.

For me at least, the #ActuallyAutistic barrier here is not one of failing to understand that job applications have hidden or at least not-made-very-explicit conventions, it's of not knowing *which ones* can be safely bent or ignored outright when applying for a given job.