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"Microsoft fired their entire QA team. They also fired their entire technical documentation team." Honest question: Is this a scurrilous rumor or the actual tr
by jerf 3y ago
"Microsoft fired their entire QA team. They also fired their entire technical documentation team."
Honest question: Is this a scurrilous rumor or the actual truth?
If you're just being hyperbolic, I'm down with that, no complaint, I'm just curious how literally true this is.
(I have to admit it'd explain a lot of what I see lately; I've observed for well over a decade now that if people held Windows to the same standards they do for "the Year of the Linux Desktop!" claims that Windows doesn't necessarily pass the test either. But it does seem to be getting worse lately, and with things like ads it's downright broken by design. Windows now survives in my house by the skin of its teeth, only because I haven't found a Linux Cricut solution and we use that every few months.)
- watermelon59 3y agoThey essentially eliminated the SDET role across the company. There may be a few left here and there, but it used to be a whole thing of its own. The book How We Test Software At Microsoft describes in detail what the SDET role was about and how Microsoft used to approach quality. I think it’s a tragedy that they eliminated the discipline entirely.
- eddtests 3y agoThey still hire SDETs so I assume it's not true, however I did have a manager who said his whole team were laid off from Microsoft so I imagine they had some substantial downsizing from these days [0]. [0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-sdet-software-development-engineer-in/ba-p/610515 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/wh...