Aren't they hiring supposedly top-tier talent and paying them top-dollar?
Surely they have a test suite and surely this would fail in that test suite.
I really don't understand how they end up doing such things.
I can only imagine that they hire a bunch of 22 year olds from prestigious schools who have never had a job pushing production code and convince themselves everything will be ok.
Yes. But you assume they work on pesky things like "bug fixing" which is generally not how you get promoted, and since these people are basically all about the money, stuff like that doesn't get fixed.
> Surely they have a test suite and surely this would fail in that test suite.
Surely, but surely it doesn't, because then the deploy would be blocked, surely. More often than not, insufficient automated testing for the not-happy/average path tends to be what lets bug like this leak into production.
> that they hire a bunch of 22 year olds from prestigious schools who have never had a job
Indeed, because these people have nothing to compare to, they don't know why they feel so depressed, distracted or out of motivation even though they have "the best job in world", and even though deep inside they know what they contribute to is slowly making the world a worse place to live.
A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?
I think they all got rid of QA, and developers don't have enough time to actually care about what they're building/fixing.
GitHub/Microsoft is incredible at this. The feature for selecting and closing multiple PRs was broken for weeks even after I and others reported it. I saw duplicate "A user you've blocked has contributed to this repository" warnings (two of them, one above the other) for weeks too before that was fixed.
I've stopped reporting issues as well, as it seems to have no effect on how quick it takes, so I don't think it's an issue of not being aware of them.
This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me think something new was opened, and then I keep clicking to find nothing. Or in one case I ignored something which was there because I thought it was bugging out as usual.
I don't know if I just got seriously grumpy over time/with experience, but everything user-facing just seems so crap nowadays, unless it's made by a smaller company who actually seem to care even a tiny bit.
"Everything is broken" used to mean "all software is insecure because the inherent complexity of a modern software stack ensures it's beyond the abilities of the average developer to eliminate all attack vectors" [1].
Now it just means [2].
1: https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1
I don't have any insider information here, but it's likely that the creator of this menu is long gone (it looks old!) and this feature is in maintenance mode. Someone--or a bot--just trying to keep the build green may have disabled the test without understanding that it was pointing to a real issue.
> Google typically has very, very thorough tests.
Yeah, sure sounds like they have figured out this whole testing thing perfectly well, if that's the case :)