- The redundancies wiped out roughly 100 people, and the scramble to fill the gaps led to hiring some blatantly unqualified replacements.
- Excellent QAs were laid off simply because they didn’t do automation, yet now that hiring has dried up, the company is quietly bringing in manual QAs again—just rebranded as “QEs.”
- R&D management is mostly a façade; many contribute nothing, and when they finally step in, they create more confusion than direction.
- Upper management talks endlessly about a “shift‑left” mindset, but middle management just waits around for instructions, acting only when someone else tells them what to do.