A few things to point out: It's easier to fix a mess when the person who made the mess is no longer there. (Or management recognizes that the person who made t

A few things to point out: It's easier to fix a mess when the person who made the mess is no longer there. (Or management recognizes that the person who made the mess was in over their head.) But, if the person who made the mess is still there, has been there for a long time, and has a lot of political capitol, this can be prohibitively difficult. (I know this from experience.) Furthermore, if the "right person" doesn't recognize the mess, or refuses to recognize the mess, then it's time to leave. > Someone hired you as a senior employee. Senior folks are expected to fix messes like what you describe. Most of the time, yes! (Thankfully that describes my current job.) Other times senior devs are hired as a possession, like buying a fancy car or a fancy piece of jewelry. Even worse, poor management might not know how to handle a senior dev, or not be willing to recognize the problems that the senior dev needs to handle.