[HyperMassive]

My current project is run in a similar fashion; and it shows... code quality is terrible, technologies are stale and riddled with performance work-arounds, bugs are fixed with the fastest possible implementation and handed off to the testing team then consequently bounced back and forth with trivial disputes.

The worst thing is the manager/ product owner/ tyrannical architect is a actually a nice bloke. but he is absolutely terrible at insulating devs from his stressors, which has a massive knock-on effect on his team. Recently he took leave for around 4 weeks and it was like night and day! we self organised: minimised new features and maximise time spent addressing technical debt built-up over 2 years. I was enjoying work again, and it had a almost skunkwork-like feel to it.

then he returned, then i handed in my notice.