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I've heard a rumor going around that Microsoft has either downsized their QA engineers significantly or laid them off entirely in favor of having devs and sub/m
by dabockster 8y ago
I've heard a rumor going around that Microsoft has either downsized their QA engineers significantly or laid them off entirely in favor of having devs and sub/misclassified contractors do it instead. I hope I'm wrong, though.
- fmv_ 8y agoYou aren't wrong. Someone mentioned this to me Thursday right before my interview at MS. During my interview, testing came up so I asked about it. I was told there are no more QA engineers. Developers will now be handling testing/QA themselves.
- dabockster 8y agoSo the same guy that wrote the code is also testing it? Or are they having other team members test each other's code? Either way, I'm not surprised the quality is going down.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI think they are relying much more on Insiders Program testing as well, which is why bugs with enterprise features go unnoticed for a full year like the Edge issue with Software Restriction Policies: Very few businesses run Insider builds.