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Re:Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs? by burntoutfire on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:58AM (#31004389)
> They’re outside of the “tech” industry. Look at companies 200-300 on the Fortune 500; their IT group uses boring tech.

If only it were so... A lot of teams in these companies are heavily into fad-chasing, so your random internal web app that has 1 user per hour will be deployed in fully-scalable manner on the company's k8s cluster (which is shit, because company didn't put nearly enough people into keeping it running).

Re:Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs? by gnz11 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:01AM (#31013209)
Often these are the types of companies that let numerous consulting companies run roughshod over their organization. You end up with a dozen different proprietary systems created by a dozen different consultants/contractors implementing the latest fad.