Your past experiences still are true in many places. There definitely are scores of companies with poor culture and processes still in place. Startups.. start up all the time, and I presume many will be rediscovering america on industry knowledge (e.g. the benefits of source control) as they transition from university student projects, garage projects, etc. to businesses. In my gig we have been chasing the unicorn of automated test for years, but in practice most tests are still manual as there's never the time to do it properly in between releases and the product portfolio is large.
On the plus side, if you're taking mature systems such as GitHub Actions, it has never been easier to chain together automatic verification builds, unit test runs and code quality checks on code when it's committed, so there's that.
Your past experiences still are true in many places. There definitely are scores of companies with poor culture and processes still in place. Startups.. start up all the time, and I presume many will be rediscovering america on industry knowledge (e.g. the benefits of source control) as they transition from university student projects, garage projects, etc. to businesses. In my gig we have been chasing the unicorn of automated test for years, but in practice most tests are still manual as there's never the time to do it properly in between releases and the product portfolio is large.
On the plus side, if you're taking mature systems such as GitHub Actions, it has never been easier to chain together automatic verification builds, unit test runs and code quality checks on code when it's committed, so there's that.