[mentalgear]

Unfortunately not many companies seem to require engineers to cycle between "feature" and "maintainability" work - hence those looking for the low-hanging fruits and know how to virtue signal seem to build their career on "features" while engineers passionate about correct solutions are left to pay for it while also labelled as "inefficient" by management. It's all a clown show, especially now with vibe-coding - no wonder we have big companies having had multiple incidents since vibing started taking off.

[caminante]

Culture and accountability problems aren't limited to software.

It's best to sniff out values mismatches ASAP and then decide whether you can tolerate some discomfort to achieve your personal goals.