I depends from what you derive your satisfaction. I've been at a company that had perfect engineering practice and was completely failing because engineers were

I depends from what you derive your satisfaction. I've been at a company that had perfect engineering practice and was completely failing because engineers were almighty and oblivious of business. That was demoralizing. A useful product makes me more happy. Code quality is not an absolute end goal. Sure I would prefer to have both, but in reality it's usually a tradeoff, and over-engineering is worse than under-engineering when in doubt. Also I've seen shitty over-engineered (edit: from a user experience perspective) monstrosity with very good "code quality", and hand-crafted delightful to use apps that would not check much on your list.