But does it matter? If a company's able to meet the revenue target with a shitty code and hire enough engineer to bandage the code to and be able to meet the n

But does it matter? If a company's able to meet the revenue target with a shitty code and hire enough engineer to bandage the code to and be able to meet the next target, that's good enough, right? Who cares about code quality or best engineering practices? As long as company grows which in turn, my compensation grows and if I retire sooner than planned, then that's great, right? --- Sadly, I think this is the truth in many of the tech companies in the Bay Area. I've seen too many times why managers can't understanding such a simple thing takes too long. Common problem the blog explains already is the 'go-go-go' product cycle. A dirty hack is applied to the code base to solve the problem quick but it'll make code less easier to evolve. Another problem I've seen is projects led by opportunists. There are engineers who build projects just good enough to solve the problem, gets all the credit before there's enough soak time for the new shiny FooBar application and jumps to a new company with a new title and higher comp. The FooBar starts to have issues but the core developer is no longer with the company. Company needs checks to make sure these opportunists don't go wild. --- My reason for trying to reduce tech debt regularly is simple: Learning dirty code at company X gives no value to me for a long run. Also trying best to write clean and manageable code is something I honor as well enjoy doing it. But... interestingly enough, I started a job at a company recently and code here is one of the worst I've seen in years. Copy-pasted codes, implicit behaviors where a code change is pretty much a whack a mole game, zero automated testing, no local testing, list can go on. However, company's doing fantastic business-wise. Exceeding revenue target every time which in turn, we can just increase more head counts to write code on top of it just enough to make it "functional". so... does the tech debt matter?