The people doing the development were likely not developers. A particularly common path is studying a random subject at university, doing a law conversion cours

The people doing the development were likely not developers. A particularly common path is studying a random subject at university, doing a law conversion course, failing to get a pupillage or a position with a commercial solicitors, and going to Deloitte as a trainee consultant. There, they put you through a six week course in which you become a developer, and you’re then hired out for £800 a day as a technical expert. Source: literally half the people I went to university with. Fond memories of sitting at the kitchen table and trying to coach my flat mate through unfucking the air ground traffic control system that they were writing for BAA in VB5, in 2005. No idea if it ever went into production.