Wow! That sounds awful. I'm sorry that you found yourself there. As someone in "management", i fully understand that business needs do not always align with id

Wow! That sounds awful. I'm sorry that you found yourself there. As someone in "management", i fully understand that business needs do not always align with ideal engineering solutions. At my company we try to have team discussions whenever we "solve it with a hack". I fully admit, we don't score a perfect 12 on the Joel test [1] (and I don't agree with all 12 points as always being the goal) but we do always strive to make all code we touch "better" than before we touched it. Your situation does not sound like a place where you will learn a lot (which in my mind is one important goal of a first job). Can you discuss your concers with your supervisor? Can you convince them to clean as you go? What are the opinions of other, more senior programmers? Is the moral bad? [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...