“Deep understanding of what is a computer, what is computer software, and how the two relate.”
Right after the senior ML role that requires people understand how to write “algorithms and programs.”
Kinda hard to take those kinds of requirements seriously.
Seems like a joke, but many developers do not really understand what's going on behind the scenes. This gets straight to the point. They don't care about HR keyword matching on your CV, or how many years of experience you have of being a mediocre developer with language X or framework Y. I guess during the interview they will investigate whether you truly understand the fundamentals.
They seem to have even lowered expectations a bit. Two months ago [1] they were already hiring for that role (or a very, very similar one), but back then you needed experience with "mission-critical code in C++17", now just "production code in C++14".
1: http://web.archive.org/web/20230922170941/https://lmstudio.a...
I wouldn't put C++ devs on too high of a pedestal. I got away with writing shitty C++ code for years before I really knew what I was doing. It still worked though.