[codegeek]

Well said. I would also add that if you start somewhere new, don't judge too quickly that everything is garbage there and you could fix it all. There are many layers of reasons/issues on why certain things have been done certain way and even though you may have better solutions, listen/learn first. Don't be a Know it all even if you are that good.

[kkirsche]

I would add context is key to some forms of code. Yea some things may be sloppy, but they also may have been added at 3 am during an incident. While hopefully these gets cleaned up, sometimes they get forgotten or de-prioritized. Even the best devs can write bad code, so always remember what could of been. It helps, I’ve found, in having empathy for other people’s code