Comment by lelanthran

I've had it at least 4 times; it's a byproduct of working in a highly regulated industry that requires the software (or goods sold) to meet a specific certification (military/munitions/EMV/etc).

In the FAANG and startup world that I worked in, there was no QA department, so I assume that FAANGs and startups don't have a dedicated and autonomous/independent QA department.

That's not the point I was making, though. The point is that we could never emit code faster than it was to deploy. Deployment (including QA) was always 2x to 4x as fast. Sometimes as much as 10x as fast.

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EDIT: Of course, I've been working for about twice the number of years as you, and back in those days it was pretty common for large companies to have dedicated QA. Even Microsoft had those :-)