[sidlls]

The engineering organization where I work is full of dysfunction. This is because numerous poor practices were ignored or encouraged over the years. Now there is strong inertia against change because the incompetent long-timers know all the tricks and manage their job security through the system as it is.

This is not uncommon especially in the Bay Area.

[mbostleman]

That would be the Big Ball of Mud pattern, in which the old timers are known as swamp guides.

[da02]

What does the software or company do? For example, do they make software for accountants? Construction?

[sidlls]

It's relatively young and the products are all mostly based on what is called data science and machine learning these days.