Is OOP Experience A Valid Ask For Rust Jobs?

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I was approached on LinkedIn by someone looking for Rust programmers with 3-10 years experience in the language (Red flag as Rust 1.0 was only 8 years ago). They require similar experience level for OOP. This offer isn't anything that I'd pay much attention to, especially because it looks like a fluke to me, but also because I use Rust at my current job anyways.

But this got me thinking since I've never had any experience with OOP, would having OOP experience change the way I think about Rust code? I understand the concepts of OOP and I understand that Rust seems to have taken the "good" parts for its paradigm, but how far does that actually go in terms of using OOP patterns in a Rust project?

Personally, I feel like (and this is not an original thought) Rust is a multi-paradigm but Data oriented language.