Overengineering: I just left an enterprise-y company where the lead software engineer "over-engineered" for the purpose of job security. His philosophy was that

Overengineering: I just left an enterprise-y company where the lead software engineer "over-engineered" for the purpose of job security. His philosophy was that if it's layered and convoluted, it's harder to replace him. Oh, we had deadlines. It had to work. Part of "working" is "passing tests" so he also wrote lots of tests that executed the written code but actually tested the mocking framework. I hated dealing with any of his code.