I solve real problems at scale and the engineering practices I see on a daily basis are a clown show.

There's little to no basic understanding of networking, distributed systems, databases, etc. 99% of our engineers were hired from their college internships and never worked anywhere else. Industry hires to improve systems rarely last more than a year and it is almost never their fault.

We're in the next tier down from the biggest tech companies and what we do is hardly uncommon among our peers.

I should be shocked that 99% of engineers I deal with treat all resources as infinite bandwidth, 100% uptime, but I'm not. They NIH super hard and write tons of code for things that a docker container running nginx (or similar) would solve in 5 minutes. There's almost no useful testing and worse documentation.

Welcome to corporate life.