> In your career, how often have you seen good software engineers whose main contribution was deleting code ? Depends on the size and age of the company. In a

> In your career, how often have you seen good software engineers whose main contribution was deleting code ? Depends on the size and age of the company. In a startup, approximately never since the job is to build something out of nothing. In a large enterprise with decades of codebase history to be optimized, very frequently.