Maybe it would be better stated as a "shoddy approach" to fixing business problems with technology. Some examples might be: - Overengineering. I worked for a

Maybe it would be better stated as a "shoddy approach" to fixing business problems with technology. Some examples might be: - Overengineering. I worked for a startup that committed to a $20k/mo multi-az setup with mass redundancy for what was essentially a lightly trafficked static website. - Not-Invented-Here syndrome. Different place spent months building out a custom shopping cart and checkout solution for sales b/c they didn't really like the built-in options. Full on high priced design team (not a person, a team), UX folks, front end devs, trying to get PCI compliance on their servers (a huge task), etc. or they could have done what Tesla did and just used Shopify - https://shop.tesla.com/us/en.html https://shop.tesla.com/us/en.html In both those examples, there's no need/value to the work being done over similar solutions making it a "bullshit job".