Personal Anecdote: Was employed, but searching for a new job. Interviewed a few places that required coding on whiteboards (ugh). Then interviewed at a place w

Personal Anecdote: Was employed, but searching for a new job. Interviewed a few places that required coding on whiteboards (ugh). Then interviewed at a place where they asked me only a few technical questions, but mainly about what I did at my previous position. Then one of the technical questions was what did HTML5 change about using <b> tags and such. And I said, uh, just use CSS. No, "HTML5 introduced <strong> for better semantics". Didn't disagree at the time, just said, "Interesting.", and looked it up later. Yeah, the strong tag has been there since at least HTML3.2 Whatever, they offered me nearly doubly what I was earning before, plus a sizable bonus. I figured it couldn't be that bad. Well, it's bad. 4 people quit in my first week (out of, say, 20-25 devs). One was one of the persons who interviewed me. Months later, about 5 more people have left and been replaced. We've also added new members. My project isn't a trainwreck, but the main headache is the main project with a 30 year old codebase. It's a mess. They are trying to revamp it in situ, but it's ASP and SQL and most of the business logic is in SQL stored procedures. They've really done some nice code* in the revamp but all it does is add layers on top of an eventual SP call. So my project is humming along nicely, it's scheduled for a few years and I'm only going to be here a couple years anyway, so it's a nice step in my career to me. I just got lucky. I'd hate to work on the main product. Evidently everyone else does to because they keep churning through people. *They don't believe in comments. The methods and stuff are clearly written, eg. CreateUserAndReturnUserRef and verbose stuff like that, but for some reason they don't have comments. Guess what other code doesn't have comments? The classic ASP and store procedures. Great habit to keep! Even my new project lacks comments. I add them, but no one else does. It's very odd. I've brought it up and gotten various excuses ("Comments rot, so we don't use them," "I just don't have time for comments" "Yeah I should add those")