From the salary info my friend here got when he applied for a developer job,
I'm amazed they could even find two testers. They pay less at Verant, in
San Diego, than most companies here in Denver. Our cost of living index is
much lower than San Diego.
Kit
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Sue [mailto:
jsue@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:45 AM
To:
eqbards@egroups.com
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Getting really Annoyed
could it be that they are understaffed like hundreds of other tech companies
in california?
guess what, it's easy to say we need 10 testers, it's another thing entirely
to hire 10
qualified people to be testers.
At 07:10 PM 8/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>If the higher priority items were truly along those lines - I'd strongly
>agree with you. But do you truly believe that for the past, lets say three
>or four months (by which time this bug has "aged" long enough for my
comment
>to be valid) - every item addressed by the testing department has been
those
>type of serious problems?
>
>Secondly - it seems that there are only one or two testers for the Live
>team. IMHO this is woefully inadequate. Doesn't Verant say they have
>approx 300,000 subscribers? Three million dollars a month revenue only
buys
>us two testers? I hope there are more testers quietly working away out of
>the spotlight...
>
>Anyway - I do believe that we need to have a certain amount of "Squeaky
>Wheel" mentality. Albeit politely, and no flames. I do believe I worded
my
>comments in a "non-whining" manner. We've been quietly, patiently waiting
>for this issue to be addressed - I don't want to see it pushed to the
>backburner.
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