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I worked for three years at a company that prided itself on being “entrepreneurial”. In practice this meant that management could add/subtract features at will and even launch new products. There was always time pressure due to a strong annual cycle in the core business. The code was atrocious - largely because maintenance couldn’t be done properly. We never had time to refactor/re-write. When we spoke to them about technical debt and the need to address it or our productivity would approach zero as we dealt with unmaintable code and crazy bugs. Their answer? Let’s offshore maintenance. I left after that.