Join a smaller company that’s writing greenfield code. There’s still legacy stuff to deal with there, too, but the proportions will be more favorable. The adag

Join a smaller company that’s writing greenfield code. There’s still legacy stuff to deal with there, too, but the proportions will be more favorable. The adage “legacy code is anything committed to trunk” is informative; larger, longer-lived codebases/companies just have more old stuff by their nature.