The place I used to work in has been hiring (junior) people like crazy. Part of the reason they need so many is the crushing foundational technical debt at the

The place I used to work in has been hiring (junior) people like crazy. Part of the reason they need so many is the crushing foundational technical debt at the core. When they hired someone to capable of improving that they were unable to merge the changes due to fear, and the management couldn't see the business value of doing so. They've had a few nasty outages recently too. I believe the insides of the Atlassian kit are similarly riddled with technical debt.