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Years ago, I had one of the employee builds on my company phone, and it picked up an update and would "instacrash" - tap the icon, and it'd die immediately. Cr
by rachelbythebay 6y ago
Years ago, I had one of the employee builds on my company phone, and it picked up an update and would "instacrash" - tap the icon, and it'd die immediately. Crash. Crash. Crash.
A couple of days later I caught up with the people allegedly responsible for this stuff in the bigger review meeting. "Shouldn't you open a SEV because you are shipping stuff that can't possibly work and aren't catching it pre-release?" The response was a lot of hand-waving and stupid manager-speak that boiled down to "no, go away".
I basically wrote them off at that point. If they could act that way and get away with it by way of implicit acceptance from upper management, that's just the way it was going to be.
I see the quality is as high as always.
- exikyut 6y agoCuriously, this type of handwavy response reveals a not-quite-1:1 mapping between the sort of assertive, pro-admission, fail-forward balance that "move fast, break things" implies for me, and the apparent reality which seems closer to "haha crowdsourced QC go brrrrt" :(
- fsociety 6y agoYep at such a large company there is such huge variance in quality. Wish you and many others were still here to help fight against this mindset. There is lots of high quality work done here, but it doesn’t matter if we end up with issues like this.