One situation I was even worse; the "senior" programmers were actually juniors with nearly no experience, but who had office politics (i.e. nepotism -- one was

One situation I was even worse; the "senior" programmers were actually juniors with nearly no experience, but who had office politics (i.e. nepotism -- one was the CTO's son) on their side. Needless to say, the company didn't go far.