> Refuse to work on old systems, any technical debt, on teams with bad developers, on any complicated proprietary infrastructure, avoid customer facing systems,

> Refuse to work on old systems, any technical debt, on teams with bad developers, on any complicated proprietary infrastructure, avoid customer facing systems, critical services, etc. I'm afraid that when you discard the above, there's hardly anything left. You need to be very high status to work exclusively on such projects.