Yeah, I never took jobs at places with that attitude.

When I interview people now, I always ask how they feel about throwing away code... Because if you aren't throwing away code, you're not learning from your mistakes. You never have perfect knowledge of how shit will be used until its being used.

Yeah, they were personal investment advisors, not a bank.

Coincidentally, they were the place I interviewed at one time with a group that wanted a data person to help solve their performance problems. When I told them they should let the database handle auto incrementing key generation rather than having a single component be called every time they needed a new key in any table in their database, they said they needed their performance fixed but not that way.

As a Minnesotan in the twin cities, I really haven't seen any failures. I wonder if smaller rural banks failed.