It's not that I wanted them to love me for who I am as a human or anything.
It's that I firmly believe that there's more to software dev than just knowing a 'stack'. And even then, fair enough if they were curious about my .NET skills. But them asking about specific versions of .NET core really woke me up into how much of a commodity labourer they were trying to turn me into.
I think the bigger issue here is that this process has made it too random and dilutive of the candidate pool.
Many software engineers have accepted that they have to continually learn and will do so.
This process though, makes it impossible to know what to learn with an impossible random and unknown credential set. It's not the same as something like elevator attendants having an obsoleted skillset. It's a combination of not having time in a lifetime to even try to specialize in the random employer chosen skillset. When instead, employers should expect a good engineer to adapt quickly and employers should also commit to training staff.
> When instead, employers should expect a good engineer to adapt quickly and employers should also commit to training staff.
At the risk of suggesting you might be dating yourself, I think this is an outdated model. It's simply no longer realistic. I personally believe that having personal expectations of what my adversaries or those outside of my control "should" do will inevitably result in sadness on my part.
Corporations will aim to do what they must to increase profits (given, by definition). Any additional assumptions from that are liable to be faulty. Perhaps you are used to the times when they needed to train staff but that's simply a symptom of the circumstances as opposed to a duty.
