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I can't help but think that much of the intent behind "cargo-culting" is simply people building up their resumes for future career development. If you want to
by angdis 11y ago
I can't help but think that much of the intent behind "cargo-culting" is simply people building up their resumes for future career development.
If you want to work in a sexy new technology, but you need to develop experience in that new stuff to be marketable it is totally understandable to try to build up skills by forcing the implementation of over-sized solutions.
In other words, many employers aren't willing to take on folks if they don't have the requisite experience on some new stack and that compels folks to gain that experience anyway they can, including "cargo-culting" stuff that isn't necessary just for the experience gain.
- StavrosK 11y agoThat hasn't been my experience, from the people I've seen. It's mostly just excited engineers wanting to play with a new thing (which is great) but doing that in the most available place, their job (which is bad). The advice I give them is "do whatever you want in your house (or your side project), but critically evaluate your business needs and only use what makes sense for your business". Personally, I have a very low-traffic guinea pig side-project that I like working on, and I just try every new thing there.
- angdis 11y agoWell, yes, but I would say that the desire to "play with a new thing" is very much tied to career development.
- ed_blackburn 11y agoI hear this often. I've rarely witnessed it. Generally when I hear somebody dismiss a suggestion because they think its real purpose is career progression. I am immediately suspicious of the accuser.
- kod 11y agoI've worked with people who explicitly said that the reason they wanted to go with technology XYZ was because it looks good on a resume.
- arethuza 11y agoI've worked with people who technology choices based on how good it would look on their CV and people who have refused to work in particular areas because the technology wasn't sexy enough for them.