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technically speaking, no I m not paid to write code, if ask that question during an interview, company would tell you that they dont pay you to write code as well.

However, when most of the companies's idea of "agile" development cycle is to have smaller goals and very short deadlines, you end up being a code monkey. A project may run better if you have time to design a better object structure, instead because of a tight deadline, we have to slap on 10 if and else if statements then call it a day.

when making an enhancement? add 2 more if statements, fix a bug? put some if statements under the previous if statements.

bottom line, because of the tight deadline, better code and better design means nothing. we become if statements code writing monkeys.