Anecdote time. My former company outsourced embedded development to the company that does firmware for Toyota. It was a complete disaster, and a year of work ha

Anecdote time. My former company outsourced embedded development to the company that does firmware for Toyota. It was a complete disaster, and a year of work had to be scrapped. Code was rife with cut and paste, badly reimplemented mutexes when they could have used the ones supplied with the RTOS, and other nonsense. I suspect the Japanese company put all their deadweight engineers on the project.