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by marcosdumay 1391 days ago
Announcing some position as "we want software developers with $qualifications to work mainly on our PHP backend" is completely different from "we want software developers with 5 years of experience with PHP".

Also, you don't promote people for non-valuable rewriting of stuff.

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> Also, you don't promote people for non-valuable rewriting of stuff.

You do once it is organizationally perceived as "modernization". Speaking from experience as I been on both ends of this (getting promoted for rewrites which in retrospect were ego-driven as well as seeing others getting promoted even though nobody asked for their rewrite)