Both pieces feel hackish to me. In the valley, the monoculture here suggests that this man in the QA environment did not do enough to succeed. In other culture

Both pieces feel hackish to me. In the valley, the monoculture here suggests that this man in the QA environment did not do enough to succeed. In other cultures, it might be said that he wasn't given an opportunity to succeed. I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle. What do we know about big gaming companies? AAA titles are expensive and if you pay people a lot of money to test your games, that lowers your margins. OP should concentrate on getting some marketable skills and the replying author should consider not wasting his breath. Both of these articles would be better off never having been written.