Any good companies out there where engineers get to focus on improving code?
I recently left a sleepy fortune 500 where our team was 3x the size it needed to be and managers delegated their responsibilites for things like deciding features and schedules to the developers.  None of the devs met with customers or sales so a lot of time we argued about guesses in meetings.  I wrote or modified in the low 10&#x27;s to 100&#x27;s of lines of code per month.  I was bored out of my mind.<p>Then I joined a unicorn startup where I thought I would be coding but things are even crazier there. There&#x27;s over 10,000 files of copy-pasted java builders, factories, providers, helpers, enablers (!)...  but the authors have moved on there are almost no unit tests.  Sales is going gangbusters so we&#x27;re all in zoom meetings lead by managers of different teams who want status updates about immediate fixes to production issues.  We&#x27;re also trying to hire like crazy so I&#x27;m giving new candidates coding exercises every other day. I&#x27;m spending more time on their code than the code in our product. I&#x27;ve only been there a few months but again I&#x27;m back to the low single&#x2F;double digits in actual coding.<p>Is there any ethical company (not interested in ads&#x2F;tracking, &quot;don&#x27;t be evil&quot; lol) where my superiors will insist I spend more time fixing bugs and writing code than being micromanaged in zoom? Or are my expectations unrealistic?