You are wrong! The code works. You are hired to make improvements. Do new stuff, and slowly fix up the parts of the code you don't like. What you are describin

You are wrong! The code works. You are hired to make improvements. Do new stuff, and slowly fix up the parts of the code you don't like. What you are describing sounds TYPICAL for what people always feel when they see a large chunk of code they did not write themselves. If you quit here, you will quit most other jobs. The correct way is to spend a year with the codebase slowly fixing it up, while adding features (which is what you are paid to do). If you still feel the same way after a year, then quit. For now, you were hired to do a job, and you accepted the challenge. What you see is how code usually looks like! Good code is rare. If you quit everytime you see bad code, I guess you're not cut out for software engineering. That's like a doctor quitting everytime he gets a bunch of patients who insist on eating junk food and smoking cigarettes.