Comment by drinchev

Funny enough, most companies I worked for, I had to follow "You can refactor if the PM doesn't catch you spending those precious minutes for this".

There was only one time, where we had every Friday, time to improve the codebase. 2 months later it became every 2nd Friday, though.

I'm really pissed that technical debt is considered as "Hey the dev guys are complaining again".