Companies seem to expect anyone that isn't a new grad to not just have recent C++ experience, but also in the right specialty. It needs to be game development, web browsers, or whatever.
Even as someone with C and C++ experience on my resume, I just haven't seen that many jobs I meet the requirements for.
Domain knowledge usually trumps programming language skills for more experienced positions, but C++ is so hairy they often want expertise there if they need it.
But those domains are usually tied to C++ anyways, games, web browsers, operating systems, etc… are usually written in C++ right?
Even as someone with C and C++ experience on my resume, I just haven't seen that many jobs I meet the requirements for.