I once joined a small company in which the CEO's son, a "7th year CS PHD" (He had to retake some classes), wrote the entirety of an iOS app using obfuscated C++ templates/macros (!)
During development a number of requirements changed and they had already burned through multiple other devs before hiring me. Eventually Xcode updated and it was required to use the new version to deploy against the latest version of iOS, this version of Xcode was not able to process his pile of macros in the same way as the old version. The QA team had already updated all of their test devices leaving us with no way to test the existing code.
This, combined with the CEO's son's unwillingness to sit down and walk anyone through the code, led to me sitting in a face to face with the CEO alone in which I explained all of this to the best of my abilities in layman's terms. He asked me for a solution and I said have your son fix it as he is unwilling/unable to walk anyone through it and being the 5th dev they had hired trying to figure it out, I put in my resignation. It was a fun 3 weeks.
I later found out through a friend who did media work for the company they were selling this product to, that they were never able to deliver and ended up getting sued for breach of contract.
During development a number of requirements changed and they had already burned through multiple other devs before hiring me. Eventually Xcode updated and it was required to use the new version to deploy against the latest version of iOS, this version of Xcode was not able to process his pile of macros in the same way as the old version. The QA team had already updated all of their test devices leaving us with no way to test the existing code.
This, combined with the CEO's son's unwillingness to sit down and walk anyone through the code, led to me sitting in a face to face with the CEO alone in which I explained all of this to the best of my abilities in layman's terms. He asked me for a solution and I said have your son fix it as he is unwilling/unable to walk anyone through it and being the 5th dev they had hired trying to figure it out, I put in my resignation. It was a fun 3 weeks.
I later found out through a friend who did media work for the company they were selling this product to, that they were never able to deliver and ended up getting sued for breach of contract.