They had teams with software engineers with different levels of competence and experience [1]. There were good, mediocre, and members that were not so capable.

They had teams with software engineers with different levels of competence and experience [1]. There were good, mediocre, and members that were not so capable. Which is true for many teams. When at least the good members have the time and review the code of the others, than this code would probably not go into production. Even when these code snippets are cherry-picked they tell enough about their review practices. >have some highly atypical needs that we here on HN don't understand. Somebody else checked in another thread. You can use unary minus in VBA. [1] >One member of the development team, David McDonnell, who had worked on the Epos system side of the project, told the inquiry that “of eight [people] in the development team, two were very good, another two were mediocre but we could work with them, and then there were probably three or four who just weren’t up to it and weren’t capable of producing professional code”.