Well, there's levels to it, right? I got an invite for a senior role at a company that some people here would recognize, and they had problems that sucked but w

Well, there's levels to it, right? I got an invite for a senior role at a company that some people here would recognize, and they had problems that sucked but were reasonable. Most of the problems I see don't really have a good reason, and I think people's experience is heavily influenced by career path-dependence. I started at a trash place that didn't even use version control, so the pathway of jobs through my contacts has been a very slow road to improvement. Similarly, people that start at better places just tend to stay at better places. Or as a much more experienced friend said to me: "All places are dysfunctional, but the difference between the best and worst I've worked at is indescribable."