Comment by no_wizard

my gosh this was my first real developer job back in the day, just like this. we were a so called "hit squad" and brought in to fix longstanding issues (this was a Fortune 100 company, where they had more internal software than developers to manage it, some of which was actually mission critical for the departments it served)

I learned so much in that job, and probably would have kept it had they not relocated it to Santa Clara.

If you can work in an environment like this for a few years you definitely should, that's my advice to everyone. You'll learn so many things that will be useful over the rest of your career.