Good point. It does happen, but perhaps not as often as the other BS reasons. This is because developers are mostly at the bottom of the hierarchy. They don't o

Good point. It does happen, but perhaps not as often as the other BS reasons. This is because developers are mostly at the bottom of the hierarchy. They don't often get to choose what BS they get to work on. That said, I have seen a company try, mostly unsuccessfully, to switch to a service-oriented architecture when it didn't make any sense to do so. I also saw a greenfield project that the lead developer used to try out some hot new tech. So it wasn't something that already worked fine, but it was resume-driven development or at least chosen because the tech was new and interesting.