Comment by 27183

If you hold up the line by flagging quality issues, you will be seen as the root cause of the problem. I say this as someone who has been there and done that--I've tried to do something about code quality issues affecting my team's velocity. This resulted in a negative performance review. In another company I raised some concerns about a series of serious security issues that were not being handled. Again, management handled it in a retaliatory manner.

These things happened at companies that value their reputations as "good" places to work. Not Amazon. Not Google. I mistakenly thought fixing these problems would not only be possible, but also that it would be appreciated.

Maybe I'm tarring the industry with too broad a brush, but in my experience this is how it is: either you go along with the malfeasance or you're targeted. Being targeted fucking sucks. I'll never paint a target on my back again.