Ask HN: how to stay focused in a fast pace enviroment?
Starting my third year in a 15 years old, ever growing company, with a high employee turnover of 1:5 (1 current to 5 ex), our code is quite a mess (multiple domain models, bridges, multiple db instances to same sources, funky service locators etc. etc.), everybody did their thing without proper cleaning with the get-your-shit-done motto.
I try to see the bigger picture of the problem and also try to refactor to make some common sense solution and my mind flies away with Google Search & Exploratory Services to the unknown topics of the far away galaxy of the software production universe. ok, universes. :)
Other developers still make their things their way and produce even more mess with every LOC. Most of them aren't even interested in learning new things. I feel like there's some strange culture of job loss and the fear of demonstrating the lack of knowledge within a team which is made of 20 developers that sit in open space office really quiet.
Design patterns are the-secret-dogma-buzz-word that nobody uses and everybody is interested in DDD?! fck, lol. With around 600 MBs of legacy code, nobody willing to risk to break anything.
Except me, of course. Having clashes with the heads. I hate when things are wrong. ;)
The company plans are set in details for the next year or two, with a continous arrival of tickets with the priority of "Immediate", of course.
New B2B cooperation?! No problem! The contract is signed and the developers can do it in no-time!
Revenue is all time high (all the time) and the salary is good - of course. :)
So my question is:
Should I care? Should I force myself to focus? Should I go with the flow and type that lousy code? Should I call 555-HELP for help?! or maybe... should i flee? :)