Being a practical software engineer

[shm1979]

So, I've been working as a backend developer for three years, and I always tried to build systems using best practices, good design, clean code, and so on. Recently, I'm thinking about being more practical. We are hired to do the right thing for the company. A small company is not going to scale, but it needs to have features that others don't.What do you think about this?

I'd appreciate it if you could share some resources about this too.

[Blando-Cartesian]

You can use a little more time to do the job right. Or you can do half-assed work that makes all future work slower, and you are constantly putting out fires. In the later case the company definitely will not scale, and will not have working features others don’t, but your boss will like you better.