> I don't understand why they can't hire better software engineers.
Beyond the fact they're competing with the most valuable companies in the world for talent while being less than a decade past "Bet the company"-level financial distress?
Sometimes the only way you can get basic engineering practices done like "have tests", "have a build system", "run the tests and the builds automatically", "insist that the above work" without management freaking out is to pay someone a lot of money.
Beyond the fact they're competing with the most valuable companies in the world for talent while being less than a decade past "Bet the company"-level financial distress?