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Most interesting quote in the article: “It was hard to get people to do sufficient testing sometimes,” said Preston Sego, who worked at CrowdStrike fro
by bb88 2y ago
Most interesting quote in the article:
“It was hard to get people to do sufficient testing sometimes,” said Preston
Sego, who worked at CrowdStrike from 2019 to 2023. His job was to review the
tests completed by user experience developers that alerted engineers to bugs
before proposed coding changes were released to customers. Sego said he was
fired in February 2023 as an “insider threat” after he criticized the
company’s return to-work policy on an internal Slack channel.
Okay clearly that company has a culture issue. Imagine criticizing a policy and then getting labeled "insider threat".
- wesselbindt 2y ago> return to work I know you're just quoting the phrase, but what a gross and dishonest way of phrasing "return to office". Implies working remotely doesn't count as work. Smacks of PR. Yuck.
- nullvoxpopuli 2y agoI'd like to clarify: that my job was also to educate, modernize, and improve developer velocity through tooling and framework updates / changes (impacting every team in my department (UX / frontend engineering)). Reviewing tests is part of PR review. --- and before anyone asks, this is my statement on CrowdStrike calling everyone disgruntled: "I'm not disgruntled. But as a shareholder (and probably more primarily, someone who cares about coworkers), I am disappointed. For the most part, I'm still mourning the loss of working with the UX/Platform team."
- bb88 2y agoI mourn the fact that your ex co-workers are still working for a shitty company.
- nullvoxpopuli 2y agoThe market for jobs isn't great, so i don't blame them. At the same time, i feel like big profit-chasing software companies are all like how CrowdStrike is. Many may be in the same type of company, but situations have not arisen that reveal how leadership really feels about employees.
- Aeolun 2y ago> Imagine criticizing a policy and then getting labeled "insider threat". Especially because that’s incredibly dumb. A true insider threat would play nice while you find all your confidential data leaking.
- bb88 2y agoI mean, that's just insanely true. I think this is maybe the most dystopian company I've ever heard of so far.