[hinkley]

QA people are very bimodally distributed. Excluding managers, 90% of the best and the worst coworkers I’ve ever had have been QA. If you have drive and focus you can be amazing. If you have neither then you’re an albatross around the team’s neck.

It’s a very passive aggressive way to root out a problem in an organization by just removing it.

To your comment about being a path to coding: if you can code well and test well, you should skip entirely over being a software dev and go into security consulting. Instead of a 40% pay bump you could be looking at an 80% pay bump. What is a red team member but a coder with the suspicious mind of a QA person?