Notes:
Between being interviewed and the time I arrived things had changed. The team I joined wasn't reworking the existing standard system, it was starting to design a new one.
The other team members were an "interesting" choice – two refugees from the shrinking Cobol development area (a line manager and a project manager) and the former manager of the now defunct SQA team. None of them knew any programming language that supported OO development (although the first two had been on a one week "introduction to OOAD using Together" course).
Obviously these people had no experience of the existing "standard system".
A challenging starting point, but it had its good points: They were bright and they were willing to learn. (They'd spent a few weeks attempting to design the system for themselves and realised that the course hadn't prepared them adequately.)