Generally speaking, mud wrestling jobs exist in traditional IT departments, not tech product companies, and the jobs pay far less than those where the code is t

Generally speaking, mud wrestling jobs exist in traditional IT departments, not tech product companies, and the jobs pay far less than those where the code is the product. For better or for worse, but the existence of "big balls of mud" is largely a result of "you get what you pay for" mentalities in non-technical CIOs & CTOs... or industries where IT spend is below some low threshold (e.g. 1% revenue).