My last job did not use maven. We checked in the required jars into the repo and everyone cloned their copies from there. Builds took seconds and were always pr

My last job did not use maven. We checked in the required jars into the repo and everyone cloned their copies from there. Builds took seconds and were always predictable. My current job uses maven and I'd swear a good 20-30% of developers time is spent wrestling with maven dependencies. Especially on a new project.