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Yeah, then when the half baked thing you've rushed out falls over it's your fault. Despite the customer asking for exactly that level of quality. When bugs appear it because the engineer is an idiot not that they wanted to write tests but no one wants to pay for them. Agency work is tough. Being an in house dev is much better IMHO.

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It's the same for most industries. I constantly see comments from construction workers "Every building I worked on was rushed and absolute crap, I wouldn't be surprised if they collapsed in a year" and yet they almost never do.

>It's the same for most industries. I constantly see comments from construction workers "Every building I worked on was rushed and absolute crap, I wouldn't be surprised if they collapsed in a year" and yet they almost never do.

Its because they are engineered with a margin of safety and then inspected for obvious issues. But yeah throw them together is the name of the game. Faster = more money.

Take the aftermath of the recent Kahramanmaras earthquake, the status quo should be improved even for well established engineering fields, and more so for the software industry.

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