yep it is messy like that even at corps, but thankfully once you deliver on a few good projects & show you are reliable they will often let you rip up a codebas

yep it is messy like that even at corps, but thankfully once you deliver on a few good projects & show you are reliable they will often let you rip up a codebase & re-format the project as you'd like (perhaps while phasing out the previous iteration) rather than inheriting a codebase that you feel is..... beneath you (for lack of a less pompous phrase) :D it's cool, it lets you keep to some level of personal standards once you have management's trust (took me about a year & a half i think? to be able to oppose a conservative architectural recommendation & win)