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  Back in the 1990s and the 2000s, say you were a Math or Physics major. If you knew Calculus, Probability, Statistics and Linear Algebra (most of which a Math and/or Physics major would know) and perhaps a language like C, you could find a job in either finance or tech.
  
  I graduated in 2004 with a degree in Computer Science and Math. It took me 8 months to find a job because most companies wanted you to have experience in their tech stack. This has been the nature of the industry for a long time.
  Most computer science students should be told to start their own side project, using popular tech stacks, in their 3rd year. Spend 30 minutes a day working on this project, make it as high quality as you can, and by the time you graduate you will be in a far better position to get hired.
context: This is done delibeartely to narrow down cannidates with a word cloud and put as much burden on the applicant as possible to make  hiring easier for the company. This was implemented around the great recession and is part of the reason why they had such trouble finding qualified people after the great resignation.  If a company can get away with a temp to hire or an untrained person with no degree at all, they will do so and pay that person less. >
  
  Well yeah, plus if nobody qualifies, they get cheap labor via H1B, which is probably the real reason.