I've worked for more clients and employers than I can remember, but at nearly every one, I can tell you, after a couple of months, I'd get pulled into the manager's office and told that I was too slow, that other coders were three times faster than me.
I'd nod and acknowledge that yes, I'm slow, but then I'd trot out the old coders' line of, "There's fast and there's right, take your pick."
Then, always, after a few months and quarterly metrics would come out, we'd see that Smith had half the code he pushed live returned because it wasn't right or because it broke something, and coder Jones, she had maybe a quarter of her code that had to be redone.
My code? 100% spot on. Right the first time, right every time. To appreciate that, returned code meant time troubleshooting, time recoding, time retesting, time to push live again, time filling out all the required forms to do all that, and time is money. That's why so many corporate projects like that go over budget.
