Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture? 3 by apatheticonion | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, can you sanity check me? Am I a bad developer (always a possibility), or do I focus too much on unimportant things? I've got 13+ YoE and been working in big tech for about 4 years, joined an established start up (10 years old, profitable) a month ago, and wondering if I am out of touch after the meat-grinder that is competing for delivering "impact", stack ranking and so on. I don't know if I should stay at this company as I feel like I can't really do good work here and it feels like, if I stay, I'll be less experienced at the end of 5 years than when I started. ----- Soo I joined an established start up a month ago, they have a legacy app they are incrementally migrating from Angular 1 to React. Their "good" app is a super custom React implementation that's extremely difficult to understand, including some kind of c...