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I’m curious what you think your observations say about the qualifications of engineers today.

Is it that most of your applicants are liars with what they put on their resume? Or that those specific skills you mentioned aren’t applicable to their day-to-day work? Or is that your expectations are out of line with the reality of their work or is there something amiss with your interview style?

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I don't think people lied about their expertise. Instead, they likely believed that what they knew was sufficient for their work. Another possibility is that the big tech hired so many people in the past few years that many people ended up doing bike-shedding work. They could be excellent engineers in the past, but as time went by, their skills got rusty yet they were too busy to be aware of it.

Not OP, but I think there’s a tendency to put a lot of things on your resume where you were in the room where it happened. You get past the stupid automated resume screen and you know enough during the initial phone screen. If it comes up on the job, well, that’s what Google is for.

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