More than once I've seen "experienced senior developers" who write code in Microsoft Word and then don't understand why the smart quotes cause compiler errors on their string literals.
C'mon man, I hadn't had my coffee yet that morning.
I hope this is a joke
Unfortunately, it is not. I heard about idiocy like this a long time ago from a developer friend of mine, I was also skeptical. Don't know why but have witnessed similar levels of stupidity too often to keep track. There literally is no bottom. None.