Employee bemoans 'entry level' job that requires 3+ years of experience: 'Companies just want senior-level output for garbage pay'

What job really constitutes entry-level?

Entry-level might mean something different to all of us, but we should work on that. We should have agreed-upon ways for people to enter the job market. It doesn't have to be as spooky and untransparent as it currently is. Companies rely a lot on a lack of information to keep their hiring processes vague and keep prospective employees in the dark. If we practiced honesty all the time, then things might look a little bit different. Companies could be honest about who they wanted to hire, and employees could be honest about why they wanted the job. But the way things are now, we have to do a lot of reading between the lines to figure out how to proceed. And one of these bits of weirdness is around the term "entry level." What exactly should that mean?

When you're young and first starting out, there is probably a lot that you don't know about finding a job. You're probably applying to everything in sight, just hoping that somebody will get back to you. And you hear a lot of radio silence. You wonder what you might be doing wrong, or if there are simply too many applicants out there, and the likelihood that yours even gets read by a human is slim. But then there is the question of entry level. You might assume that this means you don't need much experience in order to be qualified, but is that the actual truth?