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No, it’s not. You just perceive it that way. Try advertising a job and interviewing candidates for any technical role, and you'll soon understand the point made by that comment.

I've had people present the perfect candidate with over 10 years of experience. On paper, you'd think they could rewrite the Linux kernel single-handedly in under a week, but when asked to write a Python script to check if a word is a palindrome, they have no idea. Similarly, candidates appear to know the TCP/IP stack inside out, but when asked to set up basic AWS VPC subnets and routing, they're completely clueless. They just parrot some bargain-basement course answer that is entirely incorrect.

When someone says “non-qualified”, why do you immediately associate that with minorities in your mind?

Sounds like you have some racist biases to work through.

My first thought was the boot camp people and the career changers in their 30s and 40s. Not that they're all necessarily unqualified, but not doing the 3-5 years of ground work has to show somehow.

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