My guess is that people are identifying with sentence said just before: "Speed [of shipping] is everything." Aka "Move fast and break things."
The culture described by this article must mirror many of our lived experiences. The pure pleasure of shipping code, putting out fires, making an impact (positive or negative)... and then leaving it to the next engineers & managers to sort out, ignoring the mess until it explodes. Even when it does, no one gets blamed for the outage and soon everyone goes back to building features that get them promoted, regardless of quality.
Through that ZIRP light, these process failures must look like a feature, not a bug. The emphasis on "quality" must also look like annoying roadblocks in the way of having fun on the customer's dime.
They recently had a stroke at home just days after spending over a month in the hospital.
Then I remembered that they were originally supposed to be getting an important surgery, but it was delayed because of the CrowdStrike outage. It took weeks for the stars to align again and the surgery to happen.
It makes me wonder what the outcome would have been if they had gotten the surgery done that day, and not spent those extra weeks in the hospital with their condition and stressing about their future?
Their 'expert' on engineering process is a senior UX designer? Somehow, I doubt they were very close to the kernel patch deployment process.
I expect some ex-employees to be disgruntled and present things in a way that makes CroudStrike look bad. That happens with every company.
BUT, CrowdStrike has ZERO credibility at this point. I don't believe a word they say.
It was really an uphill battle to convince everyone not to use Crowdstrike. Eventually I managed to but after many meetings where I had to spend a significant amount of time convincing different shareholders. I'm sure a lot of people just fold and go with them.
I've recently changed jobs and the new employer, a large company, obviously has to have an IT compliance / security update policy because everyone else has it so if they stand out from the crowd and don't do it and somehow get hacked, it's 100x worse than constantly annoying employees and top of the line computers working like a 1970s terminal.
It's rarely that a week passes without the obligatory update + restart. And at least once a month they update THE FUCKING BIOS! What the fuck can be so broken in those laptops that the BIOS is a constant security hazard?! And why would you buy software from someone who week after week after week tell you all you had so far was a hazardous piece of shit that cannot possibly function without constant pampering?
Ahh and of course they botch it. Had to have the OS completely wiped out and reinstalled after the laptop started to behave more and more erratically, 100% caused by faulty updates on top of faulty patches trying to patch the faulty updates. Worked OK for a while afterwards then updates started piling up and so far I only lost use of the web camera (before it was Wifi then display adapter).
There's literally no words how much I hate "the system" and the constant security update take it up the ass we're forced to put up with.
“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.
C-Suite and investors don't seem to want to spend on quality. They should just price in that their stock investment could collapse any day.
Many competing platforms that can be a drop in placement for ClownStrike.
At some point you go past questions of laziness or discipline and it becomes a neurosis. Like an addiction.
Don’t find this particularly interesting news.
Its almost like there is a lesson for executives here. hmmmm
Reliability is a critical facet of security from a business continuity standpoint. Any business still using crowdstrike is out of their mind.
Anyone with access to your CS SIEM can search for GitHub, aws, etc creds. Anything your devs, ops and sec teams use on their Macs.
Only the Mac version does this. There is no way to disable this behaviour or a way to redact things.
Another really odd design decision. They probably have many many thousands of plain text secrets from their customers stored in their SIEM.
This silicon valley libertarian non sense needs to stop.
This type of article - built upon disgruntled former employees - is worth about as much as the apology GrubHub gift card.
Look, I think just as poorly about CrowdStrike as anyone else out there... but you can find someone to say anything, especially when they have an axe to grind and a chance at some spotlight. Not to mention this guy was a designer and wouldn't be involved in QC anyway.
> Of the 24 former employees who spoke to Semafor, 10 said they were laid off or fired and 14 said they left on their own. One was at the company as recently as this summer. Three former employees disagreed with the accounts of the others. Joey Victorino, who spent a year at the company before leaving in 2023, said CrowdStrike was “meticulous about everything it was doing.”
So basically we have nothing.