[marc_abonce]

Yeah, Resume-Driven Development is unfortunately such a common methodology and companies indirectly push for this by punishing candidates who admit to doing maintenance work and bug fixing instead of rearchitecting everything every year.

[steveBK123]

That is a false dichotomy. It is not "hot new cutting edge tech" vs "maintenance work".

You can build a brand new Greenfield project with Java. You can also due minor enhancements on a cutting edge tech project as well.

Interviewers care about the scope of work.