This seems below average. No tests or code reviews is common but pushing directly to prod or connecting to prod databases is unusual. It seems you've gone from

This seems below average. No tests or code reviews is common but pushing directly to prod or connecting to prod databases is unusual. It seems you've gone from one extreme to the other. From what I've seen, even at companies were people work in silos producing untested spaghetti code, production is protected. In any case, among small companies, you'll have a hard time finding the same level of quality you were used to. I'm not saying they don't exist but I'd say it might be 10% of them.