Comment by nyarlathotep_

In many cases some of the stuff at the big enterprises is shockingly, remarkably bad. I've seen multiple contracting firms leave things behind that wouldn't warrant a passing grade in an 'intro to programming' class.

Most of the time it's not "don't give a sh!t"--it's they genuinely don't know any better, no actual stakeholders even see the codebase nor are in any position to pass judgement, etc.

Most of the time folks that are "enterprise architects" or some such haven't written code in a decade and spend many hours a day on meetings.