"Eventually the word came out: the main developer of the DAL framework had left the company and, according to the Greek CEO, she had been 'too smart' which mean

"Eventually the word came out: the main developer of the DAL framework had left the company and, according to the Greek CEO, she had been 'too smart' which meant that nobody understood her code." OMG no - run for the hills. 95% of software systems are not inherently sophisticated - they are 'complex' - yes - maybe there are many features, and moving parts - but there are no pieces of the system that should be hard to understand by anyone. Decent architecture + decent design and coding and an entire banks system should read like a long, but well articulated user manual. Unless you're doing super low-level stuff, complex algorithms, heavy math stuff, or issues with massive scale or performance etc. ... the end result should almost be mundane in most cases.