From reading a lot of comments on HN, I think you might be in a semi-privileged position if you have enough time left over (and/or are allowed by management) to

From reading a lot of comments on HN, I think you might be in a semi-privileged position if you have enough time left over (and/or are allowed by management) to find slow/broken code and then are allowed to even commit code with doesn't have a JIRA ticket (created by someone else) attached :) Dysfunctional... possibly true but isn't that (unfortunately) more or less the norm in IT? Not to say it shouldn't be fixed but at the end of the day you have 'x' time to ship 'y' features in order get paid 'z' dollars so that the company can continue to survive... combined with "management" often under-estimating with respect to time, requirements and (un)foreseen hurdles.