Cleaning up old tech debt is actually a good job for book smart / business dumb new hires. Its the kind of work that gets you experience working in the environment and learning the landscape of the application, while adding value to the firm straight off the starting block.

And, in theory, the faster you clean up the backlog, the more attractive you become to your seniors when they're fishing around for support on new projects.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some people actually enjoy it too. They just don't do it because adding new features is the thing that bonuses, promotions, etc. focus on.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

From my experience in O&G, the thing that delivers bonuses/promotions/etc is making clients happy. A lot of that just comes down to rapid turn around time, low system downtown, and low instance of repeat fixes for known issues.

I've been fielding Azure DevOps implementation over the last six months (to date, we've just been getting Server/DB Admins to shepherd the files to our systems manually) and getting it right has been a big part of my evaluation for the year.