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A comment on Ask HN: Started a new job and their existing code sucks. What to do?.

Re:Ask HN: Started a new job and their existing code sucks. ... by echlebek on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:21PM (#16236573)
I'm not sure why nobody else has said this yet, but go find another job and then quit.

There's no reason that a good developer should have to toil away in obscurity on a shitty codebase.

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Re:Ask HN: Started a new job and their existing code sucks. ... by riwasabi on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:57AM (#16239593)
I'm here for only a week but I must admit I think about quitting.

I could always go back to my previous job (I only left because it's a bigger company and much higher salary). The only problem is that I moved to a different country and I signed one-year contracts (work, housing, etc.), so I'd ended up paying a lot of fines for breaking them.

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