The company that sponsored that project is known for giving it's employees really poor job conditions. I'm amazed they are still alive and didn't broke due to the amount of lawsuits.
Of course, judges see through this, but until someone gets a favorable judgement, often many years have passed.
That said, there are nice companies out there. Just forget all "software-factory" types (specially the ones who actually call themselves that, or that won "great place to work" awards).