“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".
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."
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.
