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I was tech lead on a team with a guy like this. We sat down and had a long discussion and whiteboard sesh about a piece of code that could/should have been about 500 lines of code in half a dozen files. Walked out of it thinking that he understood the assignment and I should just step back and let him code it up.

He came back a week later with something that was about 20k lines of Node.js, all just abstraction piled on abstraction piled on indirection, hundreds of files with like one line of code in each one plus a bunch of imports. "Separation of concerns" taken to the far extreme. 100% statement coverage by the horrible kinds of unit tests that you have to write to get 100% coverage.

TBH I feel lucky I came out of that episode with my job, and it wasn't even my code!