Engineering culture at my new job is pretty poor even though I got a 2× salary hike

[Pradeep]

The engineering culture at my new job is pretty poor (even though I got a 2× salary hike, I feel I might have messed up).

I recently joined an MNC, but the work is literally stealing my sleep.
Everything is AI‑generated – not just suggestions, people are straight up dumping generated code into the repo.

There are:
- no code reviews
- no tests
- no QA
- no seniors
- no architects

People push PRs of 2k+ lines just to fix one bug, which of course breaks five other things and then becomes someone else's 2k‑line PR. The cycle just goes on.

The project (and others I've seen) feels like it was vibe‑coded from day one and now we're just piling on top of it, hoping it works.

On top of that, there's an unspoken expectation to work long hours, which makes everything worse.

I've only used AI for boilerplate, unit tests and refactoring, but this prompt‑only environment is giving me major headaches.

I'm not sure how to move forward. Has anyone else been in a setup like this? Is this how big companies operate nowadays? Does it ever get better, or how should I adapt? I feel like I'm losing my mind a bit.

[Douglas]

Which company are you talking about? Sounds like BCG X to me.

[Cricfan]

Wow, that really sounds like my own company.

[Larry]

You're at a big consulting firm and still there's no senior or QA around?

[Jasmin]

Switching too early won't look great on your résumé, so maybe just stay put, upskill, and do what others are doing without taking it personally. Keep applying to other roles, land a good offer, and then move on if you're not happy or aligned with the work culture.

[Monica]

Any automated tests in place?

[Himani]

Using AI without a structured approach will break the whole system you're trying to build – that's a real issue.

[Manav]

I'm at an MNC and it's the same here, except we push around 2k lines of code per PR.

[Hari]

I can totally relate. I was hopping between three projects and the manager delegated one of them to a colleague. The code was such a mess that I spent three days just debugging it. It had bugs that even Stack Overflow couldn't answer, let alone AI. I ended up rewriting the entire function to fix those issues.

[Rishi]

If you rely entirely on AI without any review, it'll actually take more time than needed. Look for a switch when you have the financial stability to do so.