Another thing I've seen in my experience was an employer who had the policy that all new developers start off doing 6 months of support for the existing applications. Not development support, but rather answering questions from the help desk about why this program is acting this way, is this a bug or feature, etc. Then they get to start doing bugfix work on the legacy applications. In theory it sounds great, learn what the most common bugs are then fix them, but when you spend 6 months making 30k/yr to basically be a human BugZilla, your opinion of the organization tends to slide.

Makes me glad I develop as a hobby, not as a career.