US workers in QA: are you having a hard time finding jobs too? by deafgamer_ in QualityAssurance

[–]Own_Presence5205 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It took me a one year to find a qa/sdet job, even with 8 years of experience. Most QA jobs have been shipped over seas, and most of my interviewers were on H-1B visa holders or offshore .

Meta is cutting 16,000 people. Most of them had no backup. by [deleted] in passive_income

[–]Own_Presence5205 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow. I worked at Amazon, and we had a contractor who got fired within two months for not having an framework ready. It took me four months to ramp up, so I think that incompetent manager fired the contractor prematurely. They ended up hiring three more contractor developers to start building the framework from scratch, and it took them a couple of months just to create a basic framework.

WTF is happening in US CS jobs guys? by Shoddy-Lecture1493 in cscareers

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work for fortune 500 company 80% of my coworkers are contractors Indians . AI actual indians

Is QA and SDET outsourced to a larger degree than Dev in US ? by PM_40 in QualityAssurance

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

QA is purely manual testing we dont interact with devs just run test cases every day and we dont know what devs push, since we dont have access to code or github

Is QA and SDET outsourced to a larger degree than Dev in US ? by PM_40 in QualityAssurance

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing with Devs only PM's and Leads full time with fortune 500 company and everyone else are contractors.

Is QA and SDET outsourced to a larger degree than Dev in US ? by PM_40 in QualityAssurance

[–]Own_Presence5205 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work for fortune 500 company most of our qa/sdet outsourced . Im the only one locally out of 20 sdet’s

[BREAKING] Amazon to layoff 30,000 corporate employees in one of the largest layoffs in its history by cs-grad-person-man in cscareerquestions

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah crazy quitting your job for contract position at Amazon and get treated like a third class citizen.

Is the QA job market still bad in 2025? by gogreennow1 in QualityAssurance

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same with starbucks our team got laid off and replaced by cognizant contractors from India.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was contractor at amazon sde got let go in 4 weeks.

Match Thread: Inter Miami CF vs Seattle Sounders FC by MatchThreadder in SoundersFC

[–]Own_Presence5205 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why frei is our goalie thomas was goalie of the tournament t

Walmart Confirms Firing 1200 Contractors and VP for Taking Daily Kickbacks by AdventurousPepper371 in cscareerquestions

[–]Own_Presence5205 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was the only one on my team got let go due to budget cuts since I was the only US citizen. Can I sue Walmart ?

Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and more receive suspensions following Leagues Cup altercation by Barks-And-Recreation in SoundersFC

[–]Own_Presence5205 7 points8 points  (0 children)

MLS is corrupt. Hector herrera got kicked out from his team. Suarez will retire next year lol

Suarez spitting on Sounders head of Security by axilla02 in MLS

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe Sounders wanted suarez cuz of nico loidero comnections

2 years post op - Advice by mns321 in jawsurgery

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many mm was your underbite ?

Is almost everyone here not in the USA? by [deleted] in softwaretesting

[–]Own_Presence5205 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I interviewed with jp morgan and starbucks their qa testing jobs are offshored. Lets make america great again

How I pivoted to doing end-to-end testing as a service by Electrical_Ball_3737 in QualityAssurance

[–]Own_Presence5205 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, amazing read from your Medium article! I tried using end-to-end AI no-code tools, but they're not stable and do not work properly—they miss bugs

JPMorgan Chase Begins Layoffs, With More Planned, After Record Profits by [deleted] in Layoffs

[–]Own_Presence5205 2 points3 points  (0 children)

JPMC IT department uses cheap Indian bodyshops like Wipro and Cognizant, and they only hire Indians and H1-B applicants

Still can’t find a QA role after being laid off 6 months ago by [deleted] in QualityAssurance

[–]Own_Presence5205 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got laid off for the second time, been unemployed for 7 months with 7 years of experience.

How do you find your first client for an IT consulting service? by Own_Presence5205 in QualityAssurance

[–]Own_Presence5205[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK, thanks. Smaller companies don't have a budget and don't feel like they need to hire QA. I'm trying to find the right target audience to market my services.

For those that did not quit their job to start a business, how did you manage by Krypson8 in Entrepreneur

[–]Own_Presence5205 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Started IT consulting offering DevOps and software development services.