[flashgordon]

Actually About 15 years ago I joined a gaming company in need of a job. Not the "cool" gaming kind but the slots/gambling kind. What could I possibly learn from this shady product that was a scourge on society I thought. Youd have to be desperate to be working here I thought. Must be shambles of a code base with sprint after sprint of crunch times I thought.

Gotta say I was amazed at not only the quality of the code base, but also the engineers there. Very balanced, mature, collaborative, kind and really the one place I learnt most about good software engineering. It was a C++ codebase with just the right amount of abstractions that you could expand when needed. No fancy syntax magic. Impressive debugabbility!

Folks at WMS gaming thanks for an amazing learning experience and patience despite me being an entitled little $h1t who was a pain to work with!