>Outsourcing QA is stupid, but even more stupid and short-sighted is not having QA in the first place, and that unfortunately is becoming a norm. Yes, they wer

>Outsourcing QA is stupid, but even more stupid and short-sighted is not having QA in the first place, and that unfortunately is becoming a norm. Yes, they were moving in that direction. They centralized the QA team over a suite of probably 15 products, which means no one has any expertise. The QA VP would get mad when QA found bugs because "the dev's were supposed to find all the bugs and the QA was just supposed to just certify the release." The amount of people who don't understand how software dev works in high positions is mind boggling. They ended up firing all the devs except me and this other guy who gave zero shits and wanted to be a manager. "We" maintained 3 products. Two were pretty standard web apps but one was a full blown decision support system (rules engine) that only I knew. I quit after a few months of killing myself. They paid me a whole lot of money a few years later when they were trying to add features to get a very lucrative government contract.