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Sounds to me like you've worked at trendy tech companies and want to keep working at trendy tech companies. That means you're going to have to work with trendy

Sounds to me like you've worked at trendy tech companies and want to keep working at trendy tech companies. That means you're going to have to work with trendy technology. A massive amount of companies, maybe even the majority, don't do this. They use what works and upgrade when needed, not when its cool to use the new thing. They just don't tend to pay like trendy companies and don't look as good on a resume as trendy companies.

silisili 4y ago
As someone who purposely -doesn't- work at a trendy company, it seeps in here too. People abuse us to get jobs at those trendy tech companies, basically. Understand we have a relatively small web presence with not a lot of traffic. High dollar, low volume type stuff. About 6 years ago someone decided to move all our stuff to self hosted kubernetes and microservices, because reasons. As you may imagine, he took a job as an infra guy for a much larger company a few months later, leaving others to figure out and clean up the mess. Not long ago, another did the same thing, but with graphql. Why? Because it's a graph! How cool. Again, left for a sexy tech company not long after, and now our tiny api service is stuck under gazillion lines of autogenerated code. All of this points to the real problem I guess, which are middle managers. They eat buzzwords up like candy and trust that new and flashy means that person is smarter.
- AlwaysRock 4y ago
  Yeah I get it. But that is an issue with technical management making a long term decision without planning correctly. Sounds like your managers are either looking at those trendy tech jobs too (and want to have the buzz words on their resumes) or they think the trendy tech will attract candidates.
  - burntoutfire 4y ago
    > they think the trendy tech will attract candidates. This. Management says semi-openly that the job itself is too boring to atract solid candidates, so they at least need to make the tech stack interesting and good for CV. Working with hot stack is basically part of compensation.

silisili 4y ago

As someone who purposely -doesn't- work at a trendy company, it seeps in here too. People abuse us to get jobs at those trendy tech companies, basically. Understand we have a relatively small web presence with not a lot of traffic. High dollar, low volume type stuff. About 6 years ago someone decided to move all our stuff to self hosted kubernetes and microservices, because reasons. As you may imagine, he took a job as an infra guy for a much larger company a few months later, leaving others to figure out and clean up the mess. Not long ago, another did the same thing, but with graphql. Why? Because it's a graph! How cool. Again, left for a sexy tech company not long after, and now our tiny api service is stuck under gazillion lines of autogenerated code. All of this points to the real problem I guess, which are middle managers. They eat buzzwords up like candy and trust that new and flashy means that person is smarter.

AlwaysRock 4y ago
Yeah I get it. But that is an issue with technical management making a long term decision without planning correctly. Sounds like your managers are either looking at those trendy tech jobs too (and want to have the buzz words on their resumes) or they think the trendy tech will attract candidates.
- burntoutfire 4y ago
  > they think the trendy tech will attract candidates. This. Management says semi-openly that the job itself is too boring to atract solid candidates, so they at least need to make the tech stack interesting and good for CV. Working with hot stack is basically part of compensation.