I think the highest pressure programming job I ever had was for an electronics manufacturer called Glenayre. One of my first jobs, worked my way up from the bottom.
In any case, I was responsible for designing, writing and maintaining custom software that translated CAD data to several different proprietary languages for surface mount production machines. Basically screen printers, pick-and-place and chip shooters made by 3 different manufacturers. It all had to work together properly, and the CAD data had to be exacty because the tolerance for placing some ICs is very, very low.
A fuck up at that job that stopped an 8 hour production shift (they ran 24 hours) could easily account for a loss of more than $1,000,000 revenue. I was 21 when I started that.
