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Comment by baxtr | Hacker News Reader

I was once a consultant at a mid-sized company. One of the developers openly admitted to pushing for new technology so that he could include it on his resume for his next job application...

I believe this is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a larger trend.

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It's not a trend...I've seen it for decades. For example, in my heavy network consulting days you could tell when someone was studying to get their CCIE, because they'd implement something that's on the test, is technically correct, but almost no one would do in practice. Like "why in the world are they using IS-IS instead of OSPF like the rest of the world??". 95% of the time, it turned out the person who implemented it (who as often as not had moved on to their next gig) was getting ready for the IRP lab exam when they did it.

In my circles it is called Resume Driven Development.

My favorite case was when someone moved a single component from ground into a lambda.. that called back down to a ground webservice anyway.

But hey, they were able to add AWS Lambda to their resume, right?

I came on board after the guy left, got props from the business by 'lowering our cloud spend' when I ripped the lambda back out.

Now you can add cloud resiliency to YOUR resume.

Win-win.

I did it as cloud optimization, but at least have receipts for that (and have done more notable endeavors in such as well)

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