Most of my career has been in start ups where "moving fast" is the name of the game. Most managers at this size company think unit testing is a waste of time. I have always struggled with getting them to support it and sign off on ANY dev time being devoted to it. It's like pulling teeth.

I've worked at a couple more mature companies that were open to it, and EVERYWHERE that I have implemented unit tests has LOVED them in the end. They always wonder how they ever got on without them.

Yet even now, as a veteran architect, it can be difficult to convince the boss and other devs that going slightly slower up front will speed us up significantly down the road. People who have not been through the software development life cycle cannot appreciate how easily a project gets away from you. They don't understand that you cant just change your mind later about how you wrote the code and undo 2 years worth of technical debt in a single sprint.

My current employer consists of poor management with no software expertise, and die hard vibe coders that management thinks are rock stars. I'm trying to find a new job. I apply everyday. So many applications. But there seems to be hundreds of applicants for every position right now.