'Sorry, not good enough': Job candidate gets rejected for not having 5 years of experience in a software that launched last year

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? is a famous dilemma or question we all know. Aside from its clear meaning of determining the Earth's evolution, it is also a metaphorical question describing situations where it is unclear which of two events should be considered the cause and which should be considered the effect.

In the corporate world, where people are constantly subjected to the vicious cycle of job searching, this metaphorical question looks like this: Which came first: The job or the experience? It is clear that without a job, one cannot possibly gain experience. But in this modern world, we also come to learn that it is almost impossible to get a job without already having the experience. So, which comes first?

Just like the chicken and the egg, this question doesn't really have an answer, and each of us out there in the real world has to find a way to determine their own cause and effect. For the job candidate in the story below, the answer is even more complicated than you would think…