I agree with your assessment.
As you get experienced, I think it's beneficial to be able to learn to be both fast/sloppy and slow/meticulous given the circumstances. Having worked in both enterprise scenarios and startup environments, I've learned that it's really a result of larger environmental pressures.
If you're working in long-range software, it's by far more beneficial to be a bit slower and more meticulous in your approach. What you're really looking for is incremental improvements that have large impact because the scale or importance of the project is already established to be very big. While you feel like you're not getting much done, the impact multiplier in these situations is very large.
However, when you're in a startup environment, you don't have any value in the product yet, so you have to move fast. A few bugs here and there are not really a problem since you will probably redesign and revamp different features. Testing is a lower priority and you feel like you're moving a lot faster as a developer.
I think healthy teams have a healthy spread on these trade-offs, centered about around the maturity of the team/product/company. Tension between the two sides keeps things moving forward and allows adjustments to keep the machine moving forward as best it can.
As you get experienced, I think it's beneficial to be able to learn to be both fast/sloppy and slow/meticulous given the circumstances. Having worked in both enterprise scenarios and startup environments, I've learned that it's really a result of larger environmental pressures.
If you're working in long-range software, it's by far more beneficial to be a bit slower and more meticulous in your approach. What you're really looking for is incremental improvements that have large impact because the scale or importance of the project is already established to be very big. While you feel like you're not getting much done, the impact multiplier in these situations is very large.
However, when you're in a startup environment, you don't have any value in the product yet, so you have to move fast. A few bugs here and there are not really a problem since you will probably redesign and revamp different features. Testing is a lower priority and you feel like you're moving a lot faster as a developer.
I think healthy teams have a healthy spread on these trade-offs, centered about around the maturity of the team/product/company. Tension between the two sides keeps things moving forward and allows adjustments to keep the machine moving forward as best it can.