Samsung at it's size is probably a business where the businessman/manager is #1 and they have an attitude where if they can cut corners to make deadlines, impre

Samsung at it's size is probably a business where the businessman/manager is #1 and they have an attitude where if they can cut corners to make deadlines, impress their bosses and get those bonuses, then they don't give a shit if it's ductape inside. Samsung is also a Korean company, so the high level software decisions are done in Korea. Looking at Korea's software in general, they have a different set of priorties than the typical american software culture. It's very likely management attitudes that prevent decent software engineering. Every project has to tied to a near term business feature and strategic long term design and goals is determined by business people who probably never programmed in their life. Engineers probably can never push for large refactoring projects and proper long term design that will allow the company to deliver projects faster in the long term since the short term is what matters. They have to trojan horse them as performance improvement projects or similar. tldr: Improper internal incentives