> The most important anchor point for me is that engineering must fundamentally own quality.

This is huge. I was selling software to help QA. I saw a CEO demand a Head of QA guarantee their super buggy app be free of bugs by a certain date.

This is terrible. She didn’t write the thing. Total responsibility without authority trap. She was, not at all to my surprise, fired.

I think the deal fell through and I don’t know how else things ended up with them.

QA’s job is signal. If you’re getting clear signal, they’re doing their job.

yes - testing gives information, what is done with that information is a business decision

This is my favorite high powered individual at a company trope.

Hey you, yeah you with no power to change or order people around, yeah, you go ahead and do my job with no new tools or authority.

I have had so many CTOs tell me that I should go tell an entire department to change their entire goal system because of something they want done, but do not want to deliver any thought process of how that's going to happen or are willing to put in any effort to idk, move the gigantic ship they have in motion.

And of course, the blame only goes one direction in such a bad org, tbqh the QA person probably is happier literally anywhere else.