You don’t need to be “enterprise-ready” or “scalable”
I was interviewing for a platform engineer role for a company that from the outside their application doesn't seem too complex. Through the interview process, I find out that you cannot run much of their app locally to develop against and their staging environment does not reflect their production enviroment well. I asked them how they develop their new features if they cannot run the whole app locally and if they intorduce many bugs without testing locally. They response was along the lines that they hired good engineers that could understand all the complexity before deploying new features.I believe having a solid development environment where you can develop and test the whole stack is key to making reliable software. Is this common at other companies that you cannot run the whole app locally to develop and test against?