Comment by ryandrake

I remember joining a company where the official build was cut from whatever was on the engineer's PC at the time, since that PC was the only one set up that could build the software. No documentation, no formal bug tracking, no source control, very infrequent backups that were probably never tested. It was basically a "0 on the Joel Test" shop. This software was for embedded aerospace applications too (however not safety-critical where DO-178B would apply, thank god).