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forced dogfooding is unethical, but I wonder if every company marks up their cars 1% to offset a 50% internal employee discount, would that ultimately lead to a
by jareklupinski 3y ago
forced dogfooding is unethical, but I wonder if every company marks up their cars 1% to offset a 50% internal employee discount, would that ultimately lead to a higher quality car?
- janice1999 3y agoIt's my understanding that most people at Microsoft run frequently updated pre-release builds of Office for example. Having a VP call you to say that spellcheck got broken in the latest release is a great way to motivate fixing issues or preventing them in the first place.
- chrisandchris 3y agoSo at least one VP at Microsoft likes playing Candy Crush Saga all day while browsing LinkedIn? Or how gets this stuff forced onto your machine at every couple of boot cycles?
- geon 3y agoWhy would that be unethical?
- jareklupinski 3y agoi saw it at a previous job: some people that are genuinely good at solving specific technical problems aren't the target audience for every single app that may suffer backend latency issues that doesn't mean someone shouldn't test releases internally before it goes out the door, but it also showed me how users that are forced to use a platform can actually be a detriment if they're not in the cohort you are building for in the first place
- cwmma 3y agoHow is that unethical though, seems like it's just not useful
- jareklupinski 3y agothat's fair, i was imagining that the person who was tasked with seperating the 'useful' from the 'non-useful' might have qualms over which factors to analyze when choosing whose feedback to prioritize... but i guess that's also part of the job
- eviks 3y agoBecause it's forced and in your private life?
- geon 3y agoWhy would it be forced? Why would it be in your private life?