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2018: Great Company. 2022: Average Company

Systems QA Associate
Former Employee
Worked at Wells Fargo for 4 years
July 7, 2022
Bengaluru, Karnataka
4.0
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Pros

Good work-life balance. Nice benefits. Great culture. 5 days WFH per month (pre-COVID).

Cons

Too many changes in the organization and management recently.

Lately, cost cutting has started by removing most of the benefits.

QA roles are slowly being decommissioned.

Advice to Management

When I joined in 2018, I always felt like I was working for my dream company. There was so much to learn, and a lot of fun in terms of team activities like movies, marathons, team outings, and family days – what not!

But slowly, most of them were being decommissioned, partly or fully, maybe as part of cost-cutting.

Then started the organizational restructuring (QA manager layoffs) as part of the company going fully agile. Even QA resources who were already in an engineering role (automation) were asked to skill up by enrolling in the QART program in order to move into development.

There was a constant fear from 2021 that QA roles might also be decommissioned sooner or later.

Many people left the organization due to all these changes, including myself.

Advice to Management: Changes in company policies or management should make a good company better, but not the other way around. It is really not possible to remove the complete QA process from any company.

Also, QA resources with automation skills are already in an engineering role. Generalizing both automation and functional QA as just QA is incorrect. You failed to value your resources.

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