Or sometimes your prototype or proof-of-concept simply gets deployed to production by executive fiat because they don't understand that it's put together with bubble gum and baling wire, and over the next 3-5 years you are never given the resources to do anything but (a) keep it running somehow, and (b) add more features that got promised to customers in order to land them and that need to be live ASAP.
What's that...? No, I've never experienced that situation myself, why do you ask?
> What's that...? No, I've never experienced that situation myself, why do you ask?
Another way to look at it is to say this provided you with a job and an entire company with a revenue basis, probably for years.
I mean on the other side of the fence there are plenty of stories of software developers being allowed to "properly design", no technical debt, then after 1 year of zero result they come with a product, which doesn't even start (the tests run and succeed, though). Then the third or so feature request that comes in ... needs a rewrite.
What's that...? No, I've never experienced that situation myself, why do you ask?