there's no classical software development engineering so depending where you were trained (web startup vs. software company vs. deep in the bowls of a huge corp

there's no classical software development engineering so depending where you were trained (web startup vs. software company vs. deep in the bowls of a huge corporation etc.) you could have very different ideas of normal - see eg: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks