alt Hacker News> During the ZIRP era there was a financial incentive for everyone to over-engineer things to justify VC funding rounds and appear "cool".
Yep, and what’s worse is that…
> Now ZIRP is over, but the people who started their career back then are still here and a lot of them still didn't get the memo.
…folks let go from BigTech are filtering into smaller orgs, and the copy-pasters and “startup lyfers” are bringing this attitude with them. I guess I got lucky enough to start my interest in tech before the dotcom crash, my career just before the 2008 crash, and finished my BigTech tenure just after COVID (and before the likely AI crash), and thus am always weighing the costs versus the benefits and trying to be objective.
> folks let go from BigTech are filtering into smaller orgs, and the copy-pasters and “startup lyfers” are bringing this attitude with them
Problem is, not all of them are even doing this intentionally. A lot actually started their career during that clown show, so for them this is normal and they don't know any other way.