Your post is in the uncanny valley of Poe's law. > And hit your deadlines! In past jobs, my deadlines were impossible to hit, mostly b/c they were set by my p

Your post is in the uncanny valley of Poe's law. > And hit your deadlines! In past jobs, my deadlines were impossible to hit, mostly b/c they were set by my pointy haired manager. The estimates given to product/project/program managers were met with looks of "that's nice but I already told the higher-ups a different, sooner figure". > Organizing the code! This is literally the last thing to be prioritized. Pay down technical debt?