I just got an email from a recruiter who found an old copy of my resume somewhere online. Anyhow, the company he is representing is looking for an Exchange 2003 engineer with heavy experience. Ok, that’s no problem for me, but reading further into the job requirements revealed just how stupid this company, or its hiring manager is. They want someone with over 5 years experience with Exchange 2003, which I can’t see how that would be possible considering Exchange 2003 has only been out for less than 4 years or so. How is it humanly possible to have more experience than the product has actually been out on the market? Anyhow, when I replied back to the recruiter, he got all defensive and insisted that this is what the company is seeking and will not change this. I responsed stating that he will have a very hard time finding someone with such magical experience, being that it is unrealistic, unless the candidate was an employee of Microsoft and got training on Exchange 2003 before it was publicly available. Granted, the beta may have been around at the time, but that should not count as “work experience” because nobody in their right mind would be running a beta on a production network.