I've always thought that there is undue emphasis on the tech stack and the language. I've always felt that filtering for raw engineering ability, thinking prowess, and attitude would get you farther in the long run.
While I tend to agree, there's obviously jobs where familiarity with stack, tools and best practices is more important than engineering ability.
They may not be interesting, but they do seem to comprise the majority of openly availible jobs.
My current job has minimum emphasis on language (C#, targeting original Framework 2.0, no new features) and zero tech stack. On the one hand it is interesting - not enterprise stuff - and puts the brain to real use often, on the other, I think it doesn't provide anything market worthy to my CV. As most of my collegaues work for over 7 years there, it really seems to be so.
My current job has minimum emphasis on language (C#, targeting original Framework 2.0, no new features) and zero tech stack. On the one hand it is interesting - not enterprise stuff - and puts the brain to real use often, on the other, I think it doesn't provide anything market worthy to my CV. As most of my collegaues work for over 7 years there, it really seems to be so.