That's the bad management I'm referring to. I've seen a lot of bad management, but never actually that bad. If software fails it's a team failure. QA is equall

That's the bad management I'm referring to. I've seen a lot of bad management, but never actually that bad. If software fails it's a team failure. QA is equally responsible for that, not just developers. Quite often there root of the failure is ambiguous specification (so whoever did that is responsible too). And in the end the manager is also responsible, because he didn't do his job right (picking suitable people and coaching them, so they can do the job).