No, but not relevant.

What is the point of working at a startup if you’re dealing with millions of lines of legacy code ? Isn’t the whole point of startups to create & innovate with a clean slate and modern tools?

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extr 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, actually. The point is to build a profitable business.

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sarchertech 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How long has your startup been around? I’ve worked at plenty of startups over the past 20 years. Including one that was still calling themselves a startup 10 years out. The org I work at now was a startup before my tech giant employer acquired them. We have a very bloated and very profitable 8 year old codebase that is barely 500k LOC.

I’ve never seen a startup with a multi million line legacy codebase.

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dgellow 4 hours ago | parent [-]

They may have forked something

	▲	sarchertech 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Definitely possible, but up thread they wrote: >”Have you worked at many startups?” In response to a question about a legacy codebase at a startup. That implies that they think whatever they are doing is common. And forking a multi million line codebase and heavily developing it isn’t common for startups.

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fatata123 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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chris_money202 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't know if that's the whole point, but I agree with the sentiment, why would a startup be working in legacy code and where would that code come from if this is truly the start of something.

OP might just be working at a small software company or for one that broke from a bigger one and is now "startup" like?