A lot of these bad practices come not from a broken process but from the programmers themselves. There are many people who have an ego to protect or some concep

A lot of these bad practices come not from a broken process but from the programmers themselves. There are many people who have an ego to protect or some concept of fairness to enforce. Some examples: (1) successful startup lead engineer who isnt that good but still the lead b/c of early faith in the company being unable to out ego aside. (2) chinese/indian h1b who studied algorithms for hundreds if hours to get a position believing it is fair to expect the same from others. Easy interviews: Main programmer left/is-leaving so a body is needed to maintain technical debt. Startup founder needs anyone at all to make a PoC before funding runs out.