[Trasmatta]

Oh God this is where I'm at now. A series of questionable decisions over the past 7 years have now solidified our codebase into a horrible set of patterns that make even adding a single new database column that we need to feed to the frontend a Herculean task. It's so demotivating.

[pacaro]

This is where the fun begins for some of us. Coming in to a codebase that has been growth focused for 10 years but now needs to be rock solid and yet also allow the next 10 years growth.

[Trasmatta]

It would be fun if that's what I was tasked with doing, but instead I'm doing feature development, and being asked why this small simple things are taking so long...

[pacaro]

Yeah, and that sucks for sure. And it's a measure of management quality as to how they incorporate your feedback on this

[Trasmatta]

Yeah definitely. I've been giving feedback about this for around 2 years and there's some movement, but there doesn't seem to be anyone at the company driving architectural decisions, so nothing really seems to be going anywhere.