It's not only a Windows 3.11 job, it's an outsourced Windows 3.11 job! So it pays peanuts as well.
It's how software development is seen in Germany.
Also, there's a labor shortage I heard. Or so the companies say.
When you look at the software and AI, the German car manufactors are ahead of say Tesla.
Not going to name names, but a person like that was discovered when his employer looked for the oldest serving employee and found out that it was a contractor whose contract featured an hourly rate one usually gets for short-term contracts, like +100%. His stay had been, shall we say, extended a bit.