The main lesson here is do not, if you can possibly avoid it, accept a job at a company with a level of engineering quality as low as described in the article.

The main lesson here is do not, if you can possibly avoid it, accept a job at a company with a level of engineering quality as low as described in the article. You probably won't get fired or taken to court; the main problem is that you will have no-one good to learn from and you will lose terribly in career satisfaction and future earnings. If you're new to the software engineering job market, try to hold out for a company with a real team, and some colleagues that you look up to technically. It is hard, the jobs that are easier to get will be tiny companies where if you even have a colleague in engineering, they will be clueless.