I'd say the partial un-appeal of the coding section is intentional to introduce the main idea, as it makes you want to just skip through it by submitting no/bad work, which yields you different transitions to the incremental part after which help the game play further into the theme. Even if you submit nothing for all 4 snippets, you'll manage to be promoted to manager.
Glad you enjoyed the other part of the game though, and thanks for taking the time to provide feedback!