> No applicants studied computer science in university so they started learning when they joined the company and were assigned a development role. Couple of ye

> No applicants studied computer science in university so they started learning when they joined the company and were assigned a development role. Couple of years ago I had to integrate with a newly built api in japan. 2017, and they basically wrote their own web server in Java. Their own xml parsing. It looks like they read the spec for HTML and SOAP and implemented their own variation of it. It’s the worst integration I’ve ever had to deal with. If we got a 500 error from their system we had to write an incident report about why our system failed to call theirs. If they tried to call ours and it failed they would call up and we would ask them to “retry the call” and they would ask us to patch the data in our system because they can’t retry.