Bass guitar or lead guitar?

“We need a rock star [full stack, senior developer] with at least 5 years of Word and Excel.” said the internal company recruiter at the networking gathering. “You know anyone like that?”

“Are you developing plugins?” I asked.

“I don’t know what those are.” responded the recruiter.

“This person with five years of experience, they need to know how to develop custom software, macros and addons for Word and Excel?” I pressed.

“No,” the recruiter replied, “they just need to know how to use Word for writing emails or documentation. We use Excel for tracking everyone’s time.”