[ahartmetz]

If you haven't been there, you cannot imagine how bad most car manufacturer's software departments are. They are big, expensive, and crawling with bad practices. Management usually doesn't have a clue about software, so there's a lot of maneuvering with goals being anything but producing good software quickly and cheaply.

[cmrdporcupine]

Yep symptom of an org that sees software as a very expensive cost centre rather than a key engineering asset.