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It's really sad to hear him talk about his son. What department was he in, and what could the new direction be?
by smrtinsert 12y ago
It's really sad to hear him talk about his son. What department was he in, and what could the new direction be?
- kevinstubbs 12y agoSDET in Windows.
- badman_ting 12y agoAnecdotally it seems like a lot of the people let go were in SDET roles.
- yuhong 12y agoYea, I think it is deliberate, they want to merge dev and test.
- kevinstubbs 12y agoIt's part of an effort to move towards something called "combined engineering" and was started as a pilot in Bing. The basic idea is less testers, more devs. Devs take on more responsibility for testing, while at the same time getting more details about usage from customers in the wild... My understanding is that it's like A/B testing features - something Bing does a lot with "micro-flighting".