I'd love to be in a place where the act of meticulously engineering a product is highly valued, as opposed to places where they just want to get things done.

Unless you are in a huge tech company (like Google) this is not likely to happen, nor should you want to. A product need to be both engineered but also to get stuff done. A balance between the 2 os much more challenging :) but this is my modest opinion

@bolovsky makes sense. I've heard other people say that. Maybe my workplace is leaning too much on the "get stuff done" side.

Wait, not maybe. It is. 😆

Or apple who always choose look over functionality ... Hell I think half their money comes from people buying broken cables