[thekiptxt]

I can relate to this, and it gets worse.

Sign-off would take 24 hrs to process, and the mysterious entity that signed off would have no context of our product or the changes, and no way to assess the risk.

Then, due to our lack of trusted regression testing, every damn change would take ~6 developers an entire work day to manually confirm that everything was working.

Why? We were measured on “number of tests.” The tech debt was too high to write quality tests before the next review, so we opted for quantity if we wanted promotion.

This was the hot path in a major (Fortune 10) financial company.