You didn’t learn Q in two weeks to the extent that you are qualified to assert that someone who knows how to use a Python IDE is more productive than a quant de

You didn’t learn Q in two weeks to the extent that you are qualified to assert that someone who knows how to use a Python IDE is more productive than a quant dev with decades of experience. I find it much more likely that you couldn’t understand their code and quit out of frustration. If you were a highly skilled quant dev and this was a good seat, quitting after two weeks would have been a disaster to manage the next transition given the terms these contracts always have.