Crowdstrike is run by humans just like you and me. One mistake doesn’t mean they are completely incompetent.

Mistakes are perfectly fine, that's why multiple laters of testing exist

> Mistakes are perfectly fine, that's why multiple layers of testing exist

Indeed. Or in the case of crowdstrike, should exist. Which clearly doesn't for them.

The CTO with a shitty track record, not the line employees. He deserves zero reprieve

Were you not there when they took down the bridge? That would be minimum 2 mistakes.

Maybe if these US companies stop giving away our jobs overseas for 1/10th the cost this wouldn’t happen?

Except this isn’t one mistake. Writing buggy code is a mistake. Not catching it in testing, QA, dogfooding or incremental rollouts is a complete institutional failure

> One mistake doesn’t mean they are completely incompetent.

They are completely incompetent because for something as critical as crowdstrike code, you must build so many layers of validation that one, two or three mistakes don't matter because they will be caught before the code ends up in a customer system.

Looks like they have so little validation that one mistake (which is by itself totally normal) can end up bricking large parts of the economy without ever being caught. Which is neither normal nor competent.

Reminds me of Phil Harrison who always seems to find himself in an of executive position, botching launches of new video game platforms - PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Google Stadia

CXOs usually have deep connection and great contracts (golden parachutes, etc.) that make them extremely difficult to fire and amiable to hire :)

He founded the company