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I've been a dev for over 20 years. I worked for a real prick in the USA for a long time. But the worst job I had was my last one. I was working for a body shop who had no work for me for six months. So I started some side work. It was all Angular JS and C# back end. The team was a dev who was really quiet, and approved a lot of what I said but never backed me up, and a person who owned the company and told me what to do, but had NFI.
The company was riding on one contract, with a council who had a history of suing people who didn't deliver. My boss would agree to anything they asked for. As an example, we had to generate PDF documents and instead of doing a MVP, we went for gold, and worked for two months as they daily made changes she accepted. They had no planning they just coded madly. I tried to impliment agile and they just wouldn't do it. In the end we had a mutual parting of ways and I moved to Melbourne, where I got 4 job offers in 3 weeks. The job I moved to has been awesome, and I'm glad I was put on a path to end up here, but my God, they were useless.
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Quote: They had no planning they just coded madly
So you've worked for the same company I work for. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Did I mention they were terribly racist? They got a guy in to do the front end. He was Asian. My boss says 'he's not like other asians, he's assimilating. He goes pig shooting'
I said 'F***, I've never gone pig shooting, have I assimilated'?
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I haven't shot pig either! Dayum! 
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What if Pauline Hanson finds out?
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Despite obvious expectation (when you hear me talking), I was born there (in Bondi, Sydney) before 1986, I am a citizen! 
I am safe me matey!
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I was born in Box Hill. Doesn't matter apparently. No pigs, no stay
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Quote: My boss says 'he's not like other asians, he's assimilating. He goes pig shooting'
Looks soooo American boss (looks like the former American Boss  ).
Quote: I said 'F***, I've never gone pig shooting, have I assimilated'?
Neither I. I'm probably the one adult male who doens't enjoy pig shooting in the small rural village where is my vacation house.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I'm in Australia - no guns. It was quite surprising to be driving through rural Italy to see a guy walking through the field with a shotgun over his shoulder. EU has a most sensible attitude toward firearms AFAICT.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Hunters are allowed, here (and some of them hunt even when not allowed).
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Yeah we stayed with a family in Barcelonnette, they served up wild boar, shot by the father, bloody delicious.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: bloody delicious.
I've to agree.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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"They had no planning they just coded madly. I tried to impliment agile"
Is that not the same thing? :P
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"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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A lot of companies do agile badly, or do bullshit and call it agile, but, no
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Yeah I know 
How is it like living in Melbourne? I had plans to emigrate and have an application in SkillSelect, but the invites slowed down a lot due to Covid. At this rate it doesn't look like I'll get one. It seems like work is plentiful, but not easy to get unless you're actually there.
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I had a cousin in Melbourne. She and her family didn't like the cold, wind, and rain. So they moved to Darwin, where everything grows mould. 
As far as Oz goes, I've only spent a few weeks touring around Perth and down to the coast from there, and it's definitely an area I'd consider moving to. But it's not that easy when you're retired. Dairy farms only want young milk cows.
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Melbourne is awesome. I am back in Hobart, my work lets me work from home. But I do visit Melbourne often and I love it there
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Mine was a contract for one year to back up a team that had been diverted to a major recall and the coding required to handle it. They had me doing the writing of test suites for code written the previous year in order to get it to pass FDA (Food and Drug Administration US) requirements. FOr a year, I browsed the internet asking for odd jobs whenever I was noticed.
Writing the documentation took maybe a few weeks and the odd jobs I did get accounted for another two. I had no IDE or technical tools to keep up skills and no fraternization to lighten the days, so I followed every story of the Japanese tsunami for a year.
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" My wife drove me to drink, -- only thing I have to thank her for. "
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Agile, like virginity, is its' own punishment. I'm on their side on that one. 
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See, I've been in terrible 'agile' projects, but a well run agile project is a great place to be
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If it's not fun than it's not worth.
Life is too short to waste it on unhappiness.
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And that's why I left
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My very first professional job.
The team was really nice and I enjoyed the time with them, really.
But the CEO fooled me with the money, underloaded me and underestimated my skills...
I stayed a bit more than a year, then I left and never looked back.
Luckily for me.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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