[thow232329]

> Programmers tend to be interested in cool new paradigms, tools, libraries, etc...

Yeah well guess what, a company does not care one iota about what its employees personal interests are, or what they think is cool. And it shouldn't.

[lolinder]

This is nonsense. A company that doesn't care one iota about how its employees feel about their job ends up with high turnover, which dramatically increases costs in the long run. Good companies strike a balance between the needs of the employees, the needs of customers, and the bottom line. Any company that fails to strike that balance will lose in the long term.

[thow232329]

The definition of a company and its goals and motivations, is clear, and it does not have any consideration for employee amusement. That's what the christmas party and company picnic is for, and they happen outside of working hours.

If you push your own amusement as a priority at work, at the expense of the goal of the company, you literally make the working environment dysfunctional.

[sorokod]

That makes no sense, it's just a question of role-candidate fit. Why would a company not care?