> The last point I want to make is I feel like it's been forever since I had a conversation about craftsmanship on the job. It's possible I have just found myse

> The last point I want to make is I feel like it's been forever since I had a conversation about craftsmanship on the job. It's possible I have just found myself in the wrong places time and time again. I can relate with the OP, not in terms of craftsmanship but criticality of things during the development process and operations. When I worked in finance (algo trading), I was amazed at how we had so many controls and guard rails we had to ship something, that during the time was almost impossible to go south because if we knew that if something went off our company would be burst more or less like Knight Capital. Fast forward to working in some SaaS, I always struggled to understand how things were so low impact/critical/important and how those things happened almost every second. Was hard to believe that some folks on the fund using VBA and excel spreadsheets were way more careful coding than allegedly professional software engineers. After some point in time, I just felt sloppy the whole process. With time comes maturity and you start to realize that each company has some kind of meta-culture around how things are done and you end up adapting yourself; but is not an easy process. Another thing that I noticed is that your early experience in SWE or experiences that you're operating in hyper critical industry or a world-class environment creates a massive imprinting that you carry along your entire career.