So far I've worked in one place which didn't use version control in 2007, one place which had reluctantly started using version control just before I started in 2010, several places where automated tests were considered pure waste, where everybody had full access to production, where backups were untested, where one or two people held crucial knowledge which was not shared with anybody else, etc. The real world moves a hell of a lot slower than best practice.
Devil's advocate: or best practices are rarely incentivized...because there's little to connect them with real, tangible value in an organization. Having fully linted, automatically tested code doesn't matter if the product isn't valuable and useful. And if the product is truly valuable and useful, it likely would be as well in the absence of these practices.
Fair point. I did take a week's tally of "how much developer time did we burn on hunting for backups and rogue edits", and suddenly SVN was orders of magnitude more attractive (ages ago).
