woody99

Node: It's hard to find JavaScript coders since there is no career path for them.

I had a similar experience in a startup founded by ex-googlers.

It happened to me once but the upper management couldn't really care because it's a startup with no real business yet.

Also, later I found that although the upper management criticise about X privately but claims their support to X in public. I guess that the upper management could not admit that they made such a mistake, the whole company would lose their faith if it's officially confirmed that they have been wasting time for years.

They usually looks like a "best". Or they are early employees. Anyway, they are not stupid.

I once saw a technical manager forced his team to use a poor language he developed to rewrite the company's product to secure his position.

It's a few year ugly process. But it worked for him. His position is very secure now.