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An ex-employer of mine had a regular cycle:

    1. Build features at all costs
    2. Eventually a high profile client has a major issue during an event, costing them a ton of goodwill
    3. Leadership pauses everything and the company only works on bugfixes and tech debt for a week or two
I onboarded during step 3. I should have taken that as a warning that that's how the company operated. If your company doesn't make time for bugfixes and getting out of its own way, that culture is hard to change.


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