Sounds like "mortgage code"... code that is intentionally so complex that noone in the company other than yourself can maintain it, hence you end up with a job for life that pays your mortgage.
Ha. Unfortunately for him, it became clear that most of his code was all sound and fury, calculating nothing. Well, that and he took forever to fix bugs because he couldn't really understand it either.
He was soon out on the street, and the rest of the team's policy of just rewriting bits instead of debugging them (it never took very long, and frequently resulted in 1/10 as many lines of code doing twice as much) had soon swept away most of his footprints.
