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I mean, they have a salary, so unless the engineers are required to stay extra hours to do the QA it makes no difference to them.
by austenallred 11y ago
I mean, they have a salary, so unless the engineers are required to stay extra hours to do the QA it makes no difference to them.
- jonknee 11y agoThey might as well take out the trash and clean the floors on their way out. Vertically integrated!
- ftio 11y agoDefinitely. Writing software : writing software to test software as writing software : cleaning the floors.
- pc86 11y agoClearly you've forgotten that doing anything one doesn't want to do, even if it's still software and absolutely part of their job, is "being forced to do it for no extra pay."
- pc86 11y agoI have worked in small companies before where there were no janitorial services, so we emptied our trash cans once a week, and took turns taking the larger bags to the dumpster outside. What's the big deal? And that's not a rhetorical question. I truthfully want to know why you think something like that is silly.
- jonknee 11y agoBecause Yahoo isn't a small company? They have been losing a lot of engineers and it must be hell to recruit people to join Yahoo, negative press like this is only going to make it worse. As for why I think having Yahoo engineers take over janitorial duties is silly... If you're paying Silicon Valley engineering wages to someone (which they are, no one is going to Yahoo for stock options!) you should make sure they are working on engineering level tasks. It would be a giant waste of resources to have people do tasks they are overqualified for.