[metaloha]

Agreed. My company puts out terrible code that only mostly works. I was literally laughed at when I suggested we start documenting things and adding tests. This is a dev team of around 30 people who still have to site through a morning "stand up" every day, who are never given enough time to do quality work, and where only 3 devs are trusted to merge code and make deployments. Until recently, they were also the only devs who were able to generate API keys for certain, necessary third-party APIs, so if your key stopped working and they weren't in, you were completely blocked until one of them showed up.

There are devs here who have been "junior" for 4+ years, and senior devs with less than 2 years of experience - all learning and teaching the same bad habits and bad code to each other. A few months ago I did a Lunch N' Learn showing some JS features and when I showed how to use `.map` in place of a for...each loop for certain situations, it blew more than one mind - which in turn blows my mind. These are "senior" front-end devs who never new that things like `map`, `find`, and `filter` existed. They haven't actually _used_ any of these features since then either, and I have been labelled "picky" when I point out how to change their 10 line block into a 3 line block during code reviews. I doubled-down on that label when I noted that converting observables to promises (these are Angular applications) was a bit of an anti-pattern, and all our inter-application communication is completely unsecured and 100% open for abuse.

This company is not interested in improving things and is actively in a code-based death spiral towards unmaintainable complexity caused by terrible management and ignorant (but friendly and likeable) product owners. When I put together a proposal or plan to improve something (like switching to a message service instead of relying on inter-iframe messages), the first question I get asked (by 3 different people, no less) is how I had time to put that together (it took about 30 minutes); didn't I have better work to be doing?

But I can't find another job, so here I sit, witnessing the slow tech-death of their little universe, doing what I can to not go down with it too far. I am atrophying and can't stop it.