I've seen a bunch of tweets today about "company X is using (your favorite esoteric language) in production but it's such a competitive advantage that it's a secret!"
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Didn’t use version control for, like, code?
Yep. The TL was an old school FPGA guy and didn't believe in version control (he emailed zip files around), pass/fail tests (he'd inspect part of the output waveform), or using abstractions (he'd copy+paste instead). To be fair, I've heard a similar story from another company.
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One funny thing was that our team of 4 hardware folks built something in a year and a team at a competitor took more than twice as long with a *much* larger team to build something similar. I wouldn't recommend our methodology, but it wasn't as important as other factors.
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Another funny thing is that a lot of high-level promotions went out in our competitor's team; the incredible effort they put in was prima facie evidence that the problem must be very hard and we have no real way to measure problem complexity, but that's a topic for another thread
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