[Info-vax] A meditation on the Antithesis of the VMS Ethos

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/22/2024 8:48 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> BTW, I found this while trying to find out more about the company and
> I wonder if they are planning to update it anytime soon to tone it down:
> 
> https://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
> 
> They talk a lot about how they make people feel good about themselves,
> but nothing about how they cultivate people to produce robust reliable
> software.
> 
> That page above seems seriously OTT, so I just hope their development
> processes are engineering-based instead of feeling-based, given how
> critical a company they have become.

I suspect that page is created by people from either HR or
a dedicated DEI team that are not able to distinguish between
a C program and a Java program.

:-)

But if you combine "the big problem", "the Linux problem"
and "the Windows CPU usage problem" which are 3 big problems
within a few months, then I would say that they have
"room for improvements in software quality".

:-)

Arne