I'm a senior developer, and that would be a major red flag for me, which I would remember during our annual feedback time. Your statement is indicative of a ju

I'm a senior developer, and that would be a major red flag for me, which I would remember during our annual feedback time. Your statement is indicative of a junior who is unwilling to learn about the system and to do grunt work, which directly translates to due diligence and bug avoidance once it's feature implementation time. Do not underestimate the value in working in legacy code for learning how to do things, how to do them better, and how sometimes not following the hip technology fad or the more academic approach is the right thing to do.