You can ignore it, tie it to unrelated company initiatives, or feign ignorance and simply not offer solutions that add to it. Or… you can adopt more above-board techniques such as Crawl/Walk/Run and the Reverse Farmer’s Rule, which reframe projects so that confronting tech debt is an upfront part of the plan.
lol sorry for you, how do you cope working in that environment?
They pay me well, I get to work on things I enjoy and my boss doesn’t actually manage anything so I can kind just do my thing and no one bothers me. Not sure how solvent the company will be so I’m just riding it for now. But it sucks. I fucking hate my boss, not to mention he is magat asshole.
Staying is more fun than interviewing.