In my experience that's the sorry state of most so-called microservice ecosystems. Most of those companies are actually running a distributed monolith, which i

In my experience that's the sorry state of most so-called microservice ecosystems. Most of those companies are actually running a distributed monolith, which is worse than a good old monolith, and eventually much worse. > I'm in a small offshoot team in Europe Some Americans don't really understand how grim the European software development landscape is. I have built stuff for some potential unicorns and the shit product management get away with is insane. Most projects are downright spaghetti. Sorry to sound so negative. But to answer your question, I think it makes complete sense to leave that job. 5 months is more than enough to realize a job is not going to get better.