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Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part o... by bb88 on Friday September 13, 2024 @06:11PM (#41535675)
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".
Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part o... by nullvoxpopuli on Friday September 13, 2024 @07:44PM (#41536203)
I'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."

Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part o... by bb88 on Friday September 13, 2024 @10:25PM (#41537019)
I mourn the fact that your ex co-workers are still working for a shitty company.
Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part o... by nullvoxpopuli on Saturday September 14, 2024 @03:59AM (#41538251)
The 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.

Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part o... by Aeolun on Friday September 13, 2024 @08:50PM (#41536619)
> 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.

Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part o... by bb88 on Friday September 13, 2024 @10:21PM (#41537003)
I mean, that's just insanely true. I think this is maybe the most dystopian company I've ever heard of so far.
Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part o... by wesselbindt on Saturday September 14, 2024 @11:29AM (#41540439)
> 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.