You can learn a lot from mopping up steaming piles of manure. Recognizing what manure is and the thought processes/business incentives that produce it will be helpful to you in not making your own.
Also, even if your current codebases are manure, that doesn't mean everyone in your company makes manure. Find people on your team who don't write it, and learn from them.
If nobody is like that in your company, then maybe you should change jobs if you've been there more than two years. Cleaning up manure helps with interviewing because you can share your war stories with the interviewer.
Also, even if your current codebases are manure, that doesn't mean everyone in your company makes manure. Find people on your team who don't write it, and learn from them.
If nobody is like that in your company, then maybe you should change jobs if you've been there more than two years. Cleaning up manure helps with interviewing because you can share your war stories with the interviewer.