Yeah, in most swe roles, you got some task from the PM that describe a new features. But you were not hired to just translate the ticket to code. More often, it

Yeah, in most swe roles, you got some task from the PM that describe a new features. But you were not hired to just translate the ticket to code. More often, it’s your responsibility to figure out all those non-functional requirements, like don’t break anything that is currently working. More often, the issue with legacy code is not that you don’t know how to make a change, it’s because you don’t know if and how it will blow up after making it.