In my experience, as a dev, most often we want to fix everything but someone over us in the hierarchy decides that something else is of higher priority and we never get time to fix the bug. It’s an anti pattern for sure but it still happens.
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Technical debt is less visible the higher up "the hierarchy" you go.
Another reason why smaller teams are better.
Yep, the company I work for is huge. Present in almost every country and all continents
Yes, good point, there’s also the political aspect. Usually high management setting extremely tight deadlines or different priorities—which makes the whole work cumbersome. Maybe they should focus more on customer experience and less in pleasing the big shots (stakeholders)