[gmmeyer]

This is a truly bizarre article. The practice he is outlining here is wild, no reasonable company would do this. Lots of companies however end up with bizarre and dumb build systems for reasons of history, but this one is the strangest I have ever heard of. Even just reading the article I cannot really come away with a sense of how or why they did this and it is so strange that my brain doesn't wanna accept that it existed.

However, it's also bizarre because it seems to not just contain an explanation of this weird tech but a lot of vitriol. This guy seems to have outlined what was a dysfunctional place where a lot of junior people got a nice start to their career. This doesn't seem to me to be a good reason to badmouth the place. You as a senior engineer should be helping people to be better coders, not shitting on them for being junior developers. (And yes the owner was bad but that's no reason to shit on the juniors!)

I think if I were interviewing this guy and saw this piece I would immediately slam then Strong No Hire button.