Max's answer to the interview question "What is the most terrible code that you ever encountered, and what was your approach to refactoring it?" is relevant her

Max's answer to the interview question "What is the most terrible code that you ever encountered, and what was your approach to refactoring it?" is relevant here. In his book "Code Simplicity", Max has a checklist (summarized in point 4 of https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/rewrites-vs-refactoring-17-essential-reads-developers https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/rewrites-vs-refactori...) -- and that's the checklist referred to in the InfoQ interview.