> The most important anchor point for me is that engineering must fundamentally own quality.

This is huge. I was selling software to help QA. I saw a CEO demand a Head of QA guarantee their super buggy app be free of bugs by a certain date.

This is terrible. She didn’t write the thing. Total responsibility without authority trap. She was, not at all to my surprise, fired.

I think the deal fell through and I don’t know how else things ended up with them.

QA’s job is signal. If you’re getting clear signal, they’re doing their job.