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Could be at least one valid reason: They put high number of years to make people feel inadequacy about their experience level to make it easier to low ball them. Of course it doesn't work in this case now that EVERYONE is memeing it, but it might have been the original intention.

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Or maybe they just recycled an old openstack job posting and didn’t clean it up properly.

yea, its more likely that someone didn't watch what they were doing.

Hardly counts a valid reason now, does it?

from the perspective of an employee it might not. If your goal is to get the best people at the cheapest prices it's logic to do things that will make them accept lower salary (ideally you do it without making a meme, but eh, can't win um all I guess)

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