I saw a positon labeled Junior Developer, looked inside, and it asked for five years of experience.

I'm starting to think my bachelor's degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

I figured it out a while back. It's a definitional mismatch. While you and I think about entry level as the level at which we enter a career, the companies think of entry level as the level at which somebody enters the company. They ditched any notion of social responsibility in the form of cultivating new workers long ago.

This is why with a marketing degree I work in a bank.

There was a dev who found a job posting asking for like 10 years experience in a piece of software he had written that wasn't even 5 years old yet.

When you still need a job

I heard a stat that 73% of entry level jobs have gone away. And it makes me so angry, it is hard to articulate all the ways this is terrible. Obviously, for the people entering the workforce. It is short sighted for a business to not have a hiring and development strategy that allows them to pick up fresh talent. And it creates a problem in 15 or 20 years when we don't have enough people with the right experience. shakes fist into air

"Junior level position, 5+years experience required!"

"entry level" is referring to remuneration not expertise.