Refactoring is almost never a priority at a real company that has brought a product to market. Either the culture there is receptive to it, or you're better off

Refactoring is almost never a priority at a real company that has brought a product to market. Either the culture there is receptive to it, or you're better off learning to live with it. Sometimes you can get away with small, incremental refactors of things that touch the new code you check in.