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The problem is that he has a big pile of half-working spaghetti code that he never has time to touch except when it malfunctions in the middle of the night

The problem behind that is that Amazon is a completely dysfunctional corporate hellscape. Like TFA said, you just don't have time or resources to actually fix things



Also usually it’s in Java in an internal framework based off Springboot and I’m a front-end developer with no experience writing backend services.

Totally normal. Not crazy at all. Take ownership.


You should join Amazon and do that, and you can come back here and apologize in a couple of years when you get pipped for wasting too much time on legacy code




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