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Pluto STE Team Sync

JO: "You cannot be here without skill; skill is always expected." Hahaha—what a joke. Does he not realize that EK and LD actively hire and promote STEs who lack basic competency?

I'm talking about STEs who don't understand testing, can't instantiate an object, and focus solely on politics, while others carry the actual workload.

There is no meritocracy on the Pluto STE side.

And while JO does a good job defending the STE organization publicly, we continue to lose valuable people from other parts of Pluto.

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Saying PTV STE org is bloated is an understatement. All that’s needed at most is a competent SDET assigned to each group to manage Test Automation, with a handful of testers to bug seek for the entire Engineering org. Then again PTV is rife with feckless sr leadership on up that only wants to hear pleasing news, while ignoring the real issues. But hey, crocodile tears go a long way in making people feel better.

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Read the future. STE is not going to be seperate teams in the future. All the streaming testing teams are over bloated with inefficiencies.

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Is success clearly defined? If not, it is hard for a true meritocracy to exist.

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