I read some of this earlier today via the reddit link. My favorite part was when Milburn decided that he would supervise their coding via video chat<p>&gt; Gregory suggested it might be more productive if we all got to work, and Milburn agreed, but he insisted that we work while logged into a video chat with him. So we went to our desks and we started working, and all of us (except Hinton) were logged into video chat with Milburn. And Milburn just sort of stared at us through the screen. He wanted to overhear us, and he wanted to watch us as we worked. His attitude was like that of a foreman who was overseeing a crew that had to dig a ditch. It was as if he feared that we would only work while he was looking at us, and the moment he looked away we would goof off.<p>...<p>&gt; I said, “It is definitely in the hashmap.”<p>&gt; Milburn jumped in. “What is this? Hashmaps? Shouldn’t you be sending JSON documents?”<p>&gt; He had no idea what he was talking about.<p>...<p>&gt; Then Gregory said, “Hey, I don’t see where we initialize our Natural Language Processing engine. Are you sure you set this up so it is initialized?”<p>&gt; Milburn said, “Gregory, are you saying Lawrence forgot to turn the software on? That’s incredible.”<p>Milburn then continues to drive Gregory to debug &quot;our hero&#x27;s&quot; code. He&#x27;s looking for a smoking gun some sort of incontrovertible proof that Lawrence made an error. Any error. All the while over video chat.<p>This guy is somewhere around 50, a sales guy, no idea hide nor hair about code... but he knows that he really wants to stick it to Lawrence.<p>What a maroon.