I've been working at this "big" company for nearly a year now and I just can't take the politics of it anymore. It seems I was naive to think that as a developer I should work to improve the product by finding bugs, fix them, build new features fast. But I was wrong. People don't want you to build new features fast because they won't be able to test it in time and they frown if you find bugs because they somehow think you're making them look bad. And this behavior goes up the chain, to senior dev, to manager and may be up. Hiding mistakes, disowning bugs and what not.
I feel like I'm neither getting recognition, nor the reward but think I'm getting the satirical blunt of it (I don't get it most of the time).
How would you guys proceed to quit this job ? Yearly performance review is coming up but I'm not sure if I can make it past the regular 5% increase. Should I say it's not enough and just quit ?
