I agree that "gatekeeping" gets a bad rap. Sure, it can be taken too far. But at the end of the day, one needs to actually be qualified. And if they aren't, well sorry but you aren't good enough for the job. It doesn't make you a bad person, it just means you need to work on your skills before you're a fit.
Right. I don’t apply to jobs that cite a need for a decade of experience with data center-scale networking, for example, because I don’t have that. Not even close. I don’t view that as gatekeeping, it’s wanting people to be able to quickly ramp up to whatever quirks the environment has, without needing to learn fundamentals of the craft first.
