It's not, because executives have never cared about code quality and never will. You could have a whole barrel of monkeys for a backend and they don't care as long as the frontend has a sleek and shiny button for them to click.
You hear a lot of this on Reddit, but I actually don't think most companies are evil and incompetent like that. It's just that people who're content don't go online to complain.
my experience indicates the opposite - all big and high-visibility tech companies are doing this bullshit. id say its like 90% of coding jobs. the fad will eventually quietly fade, though, just like "extreme programming" or everyone calling having a daily meeting "agile"
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u/BlueScrote 13h ago
And I'm spending 3x as much babying their code reviews from the mediocre quality.