[roarcher]

Absolutely, I've gone through this at most of my past employers and am currently experiencing it. We've always had a very careful engineering culture, taking the time to thoroughly plan and future proof features, and it's been great. But now we've got a big industry name waving a blank check in our face and we're suddenly rushing features to win their business. Our architecture is becoming brittle and we're spending as much time fixing defects in the new features as building them.

We're a startup and I get why management sees this opportunity as our big break, but I have to wonder if it'll be worth it in the long term. Sucks to watch the best codebase you've ever worked on devolve into the standard enterprise ball of mud in real time.