In my experience, "incredibly high pressure and demanding" is code for:
- Hacky code with quick turn around times.
- Lots of reporting and CYA.
- Very conservative behavior (nobody's going to go out on a limb to write something new because they're too busy churning through those "high pressure" Jira tickets).
In the long run you just have an army of engineers, their backs whipped raw, toiling frantically at a mountain of tech debt.
- Hacky code with quick turn around times.
- Lots of reporting and CYA.
- Very conservative behavior (nobody's going to go out on a limb to write something new because they're too busy churning through those "high pressure" Jira tickets).
In the long run you just have an army of engineers, their backs whipped raw, toiling frantically at a mountain of tech debt.