I was an intern when this happened, but yeah. We were working on a program to manage a piece of industrial hardware, and the hardware was a handheld device. Th

I was an intern when this happened, but yeah. We were working on a program to manage a piece of industrial hardware, and the hardware was a handheld device. The contractor hired to build out the firmware put something like 16 people working 60 hour weeks on this. For about 12 weeks, they toiled away, and then we decided that they should join our demos and demo what they had. Well, it was incredibly bad. They had basically just created some Qt templates. They had very little, if any, code written under the covers. The logic just wasn't there, but the interface was at least nice. It was pretty clear these guys had no idea what they were doing. Our director of development were all over these guys every day for weeks after that. Eventually my internship ended, but I heard that they ultimately decided to drop the contractor and hire in house for it, and it eventually got released about 4 or 5 years after I left there.