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> Anecdotally, I was once hired for a company that wanted to build a new product in .Net. The new product didn’t find a market, but their legacy product written
by dahfizz 6y ago
> Anecdotally, I was once hired for a company that wanted to build a new product in .Net. The new product didn’t find a market, but their legacy product written in PHP did. None of us wanted to spend a year doing PHP development. All 14 of us left within six months.
Seems like exactly the point OP is making. By hiring devs that cared more about the stack than the product, your employer got screwed when the product with the boring stack took off.
- scarface74 6y agoAnd if we had stayed, we would have been screwed when we did get ready to leave and find another job and all we could talk about is that we developed in PHP for a year.... But the rest of the story.... The department we worked for was an independent startup that got acquired by a Fortune 10 company (at the time) shortly before they started ramping up. The manager of the department was one of the original developers and founders. Even he left soon afterwards.