Agreed. I find work on my own code generally fun and easy and extremely productive. Vs, work on "other people's code" often frustrating and slow. I do often le

Agreed. I find work on my own code generally fun and easy and extremely productive. Vs, work on "other people's code" often frustrating and slow. I do often learn amazing stuff from other people's code though. What makes it slow is the time it takes to get a usually very incomplete mental model of what the code does and then trying to divine what the owners will want when I add a feature. Unlike the original poster though, I have't had the experience of co-workers writing horrific code in most of my career. A few exceptions but mostly they've been great. Especially at FAANMG though I assume YMMV.