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CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our process'


Former company staffers said they raised concerns about quality and training for more than a year before the July outage.

His job was to review the tests completed by user experience developers that alerted engineers to bugs before proposed coding changes were released to customers. The episode has cost the company more than $21 billion in stock-market value and brought on a slew of lawsuits, including one potential suit by Delta Airlines, which pegged its losses at$550 million after thousands of flights were canceled. At a hacker convention in August, CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas accepted an award on stage for “Most Epic Fail.” He said it’s “super-important to own it when you do things horribly wrong.”

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