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On my third job in the two years of my career now, and this one and the previous one both had mountains of technical debt. I am actively looking for job 4 now, but this time I'm a bit more cautious. (Job 2 counter-offered a 1000+€ raise and I turned it down for having basically the same wage at job 3 because it supposedly would be a better technical environment. It is not.)
The only common denominator between the last two is that both are small-ish and ERP software so idk. [Edit: also 'me', but for sure it can't be this bad everywhere right]
And for both it was caused by a very short-term way of looking at things. (Sure we could speed up development by X2, but that would take two months and the client wants this feature now)