In the follow-up to my last post, I'd like to explore how many people exactly it is necessary for SelectQuote to use, in order to do some of the work I did.   Keep in mind that maintainability metrics such as Cyclomatic Complexity were generated on all my Java builds, I specifically targeted ease of code maintenance when programming.  Any programmer should be able to maintain my code, it's just the volume of work I did overwhelms them.    First there are the obvious two the phone system administrator, Ken Lee, and Serguei Zakhartchenko architect/programmer that took over my work on the telephony side of the agent desktop. This does not cover all the Java side of what I did.  As we see, however, the spouses of IT Director Kirwan and dim-witted programmer Michelle Tan can be used in this capacity.    Jong Lee has been brought in to help his lazy wife with the conversion of qvconvert.  This task would've fallen to me. However this still isn't taking a chunk out of my server-side web and telephony Java work, or any of the business-to-business work that I did.  Well Director Ian Kirwan's wife May Yun Chu into can handle this.  Maybe.  Some of it at least.  I guess this would be why web development looks to no longer be done in Java.  I think they probably outsourced this, after all there was only one other senior developer, Andrei Kolesnik.      He was pretty busy with the agent desktop (non-telephony pieces) before. Also he has stuck with Pascal/Delphi his entire career.  Much like many programmers trained before the turn of the century, I used Pascal in school, it is after all learning language.  I wrote a simple role-playing game in Pascal for my high school computer math class, but I put this language away after I left school.  It seems that if you really want to you can build a real system in this language.  Executives at SelectQuote probably think knowledge of this language is actually rare, so Andrei has carved out his niche.  He probably wouldn't want to change now.    Well, that is quite a cast of characters, and I note that SelectQuote did not meet their expansion targets for Jacksonville back in 2011.  Technology likely had a lot to do with that.  I was offered a pretty good hourly rate to fix my build machine back then, I had made major scalability improvements for the agent desktop.  SelectQuote couldn't build from that base without my build machine, as everyone else's build was stuck back on Visual Studio 6 (which came out in the 90s), and my code would not build on their machine.  Well, Serguei probably has it under control by now, but I think I've sufficiently demonstrated that I'm an army of one.     Children harmed at SelectQuote