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Perhaps one solution is to divorce your own self worth from the quality of the software you happen to write and to realize that you are an employee first and a software engineer second - make decisions that increase the amount of money the company makes and look for self worth in that itself or in hobbies/family/friends/something else.

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That’s was the main reason that I do my pet projects: to detach myself from some corporate persona that is a completely different from my professional self.

I still have a lot of professional pride, but it comes more from my personal projects and sharpening my craft than to some corporate version that could be dragged down by structural issues.

If one is going to go there, why not make decisions that increase the amount of money you make? Why help companies succeed shipping crappy software?

If your self worth is related to how much money you make (not saying that's bad) then go for it!

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