> What type of living hell doesn't have version control? I've worked (thankfully not as an employee) for a well known BANK which did not have any kind of versi

> What type of living hell doesn't have version control? I've worked (thankfully not as an employee) for a well known BANK which did not have any kind of version control whatsoever. None. Not even folders with dates. "Where's the latest release?" "Oh, it's in John Doe's flash drive over there" I am not kidding. After a lot of pestering by my company (which was working on a consulting role), they spent big bucks on some unknown version control system used by hardly anyone else. It followed the old Source Safe's "lock" mechanism. Except you had to use their own software and navigate to each file in question (no searching). Imagine how amazing it was to work on a java project and sloooowly open each folder in the reverse DNS package convention until you got to the file you wanted. Very slowly, because all actions happened on the server. Later on they were bragging on how they were able to create a branch in less than a week. Merging was a day long affair with all code contributors present. EDIT: still, that was over a decade ago. I didn't know there were companies involved with software in any capacity that still don't have version control in 2020.