[ofrzeta]

While I agree that it's a social problem I think it's more of an industry problem than a hiring problem. The industry generates sales by putting new tech first over solving business problems. So you have customers like big companies and consulting companies that hire "cheap young and naive programmers" with little experience who are willing to jump any hype train. After all it is easier to just learn the latest bunch of technologies opposed to recap decades of computing history. Then the young programmers implement proof of concepts in, say, cloud, containers, serverless and BigCo execs are satisfied because they can proof they are trying out new stuff. It doesn't matter that it's not maintainable or sustainable because it's thrown away after one year anyway, when the cycle starts over.

Obviously I am exaggerating but it's still a huge part of reality.