@GergelyOrosz: This post about a QA at Adobe leaving tech after Adobe let him go is go is going viral. The reality is that manual QA h…
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Gergely Orosz discusses a viral post about a QA engineer laid off from Adobe after 25 years, reflecting on the long-term decline of manual QA roles in the tech industry.
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This post about a QA at Adobe leaving tech after Adobe let him go is go is going viral.
The reality is that manual QA has been a dying field inside of tech for the last 10-15 years. Eg Microsoft got rid of the SDET role (which I’d argue was more involved!) in 2014- 12 years ago!
Hany Girgis (@SanDiegoKnight): This one is heartbreaking.
He spent 25 YEARS at Adobe.
Senior Software Quality Engineer.
More than 15 years of quality engineering experience.
Laid off in August 2025.
Then he spent more than a year looking for another job in tech.
Applications filtered out. Recruiters
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