I quit working at a huge defense contractor last year (perhaps the largest in the world?), it's a big one... you know it. Some of the nonsense that they had goi

I quit working at a huge defense contractor last year (perhaps the largest in the world?), it's a big one... you know it. Some of the nonsense that they had going on included but was not limited to charging the government $150/hr at a rate of 1.5 lines of code per hour. The code that was being written was not being written by software engineers (it was mechanical engineers, and some other engineering disciplines, but no one that really knew how to write code) and was not being tested (integration tests, but not unit tests or anything). The biggest piece of bullshit that I saw while working there was this: I was one of the few software engineers on my particular team. My code was more concise (by a factor of 3.5 on average) and contained an order of magnitude less bugs than the team's average bugs per sloc. This was expected because I was one of the few software engineers, it makes sense that my code would be better than a non-software engineer. I was approached by someone in a position of authority and told that the work I was doing was great, but I needed to slow down. I was told "I wasn't earning my value.", which is code speak for "You're working too fast, and if you slow down we can charge the government more because we bill by the hour." I quite last September and haven't looked back.