[crimsonalucard1]

>But if a candidate is motivated to take a job because they get to use shiny new technology, i would suggest that they are not, in fact, a good candidate.

I would argue that this attitude often exists at the corporate level as well.

Most companies I've worked exist in a perpetual state of migration from monolith to Micro services. Basically the overall architecture remains static in the sense that it's always a giant monolith sitting in the center with some satellite services surrounding it.

The migration to microservices and kubernetes is 99% buzzword driven and rarely has nothing to do with whether or not the product will benefit from the migration. The weirdest part about it is that it's many times a never ending thing initiative. It's very rare for a company to actually arrive to a point where every component of their system is split out into small pieces. It usually just stays permanently as some services surrounding a monolith despite all the talk.

When entire companies are like this it's usually a sign that the entire company is weak. My experience has been that many companies have this attitude and many programmers share it.

If all/most programmers share this general attitude then I wouldn't call these "new technology chasers" bad as most people are like this.