"I have 4 years of experience in this technology plus a bunch of experience in related technologies"
"Sorry, they require you having 5 years of experience"
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As if experience is distributed evenly across all previous employment scenarios. I have run into people who have 12 years of experience coasting through low-effort engineering tasks that look like highly technical efforts to thr rest of the company.
In short, tell the recruiter to lie. Everyone else does.
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