When I worked at the Research division of a large software company, one of my managers got upset when our unit tests (all of them put together) took more than 1

When I worked at the Research division of a large software company, one of my managers got upset when our unit tests (all of them put together) took more than 15 seconds to run, and he wanted to delete tests to get it back under 15 seconds. He was simultaneously one of the smartest and dumbest people I've ever worker with. During that time, I did the best work I've ever done, and got the worst review I've ever had.