Not for technical reasons, but my worst job in software was also my first, a part time gig in college back in the late 90s.<p>It was a software company owned by two people that didn&#x27;t write code or do anything on a computer other than send email.  They had somehow managed to hire somebody to make a moderately successful version 1.0 of their product, but now none of the original programmers were there and they were trying to come up with a brand new release.<p>They mentioned during the interview that they had been &quot;burned&quot; by every programmer they&#x27;d ever hired.  In retrospect, this was a red flag that the business owners were the only common denominator there, but again, this was my first ever software job, I had no idea what to expect.<p>They stopped paying me after 1 month, and kept promising that I&#x27;d get paid as soon as the big contract they were pursuing landed.  I quit shortly after I took a phone call from one of their creditors demanding that they fax over a check.