I was wondering how much "elitism" this article might inspire. Not every bit of software needs to be developed through a TDD process using the latest NoSQL database and concurrent programming techniques. Sometimes the 80% (heck, even 40%) solution is all that is required.... Good on this person for taking some initiative.

The "feature" is a simple crud application for job postings on their corporate website. How much re-factoring and testing is necessary?

I doubt the code would need to be re-used in their main product, and why would you need anything more then user testing?

I doubt the co-founder is now prancing around talking about how coding is easy. She spent 36 hours developing a simplistic feature that would take an experienced developer less then a day.

This is a "feature" (simple crud) that would take 6 clicks to build in Visual Studio (just saying) :-)