Yes and it does the job. If it's unmaintainable as alleged then that's a refactoring job which is a lot easier imo than starting from scratch. Joe from HR has

Yes and it does the job. If it's unmaintainable as alleged then that's a refactoring job which is a lot easier imo than starting from scratch. Joe from HR has given him his UI and undeniably laid out everything the code needs to do. Mr Real Programmer should just then get on, stick in his tests, refactor and quit whining about Joe's code. After all what's he there for, did he expect Joe to do everything?