In their defense, the one thing that bothers me most is if I specifically tell someone to code something a certain way (for example, to skip tests on this project), and they don't listen and do it anyway because "it's the right way." I on the other hand know what is right for my project... not the person I'm hiring. That's why I asked X person to do it a specific way.
Btw Im not saying they arent toxic, they sound like pieces of shit. Just pointing it out more generally.
They didn't give me any instructions about how to implement the feature. I had just arrived 2 weeks earlier and there was a lot of code there so it would have been impossible for me to get it to work (without breaking existing stuff) if I did not write tests.
Also this is a company that handles business transactions; high-value stuff; there should have been more tests.
Btw Im not saying they arent toxic, they sound like pieces of shit. Just pointing it out more generally.