Um Yeah
That’s what happens when you hire armies of H1-Bs to regurgitate CrapCode day and night
It has memory leaks, crashes all the time for no good reason, and has backdoors everywhere since nobody thought about it and the Configuration Mgmt guys didn’t know or care
You are more right than you know.
Intel Validation used to be one of the top notch groups within the company.
NOTHING got past this team without a really good reason.
Back 10 years ago, the Validation Team was forced (at threat of termination) to setup a validation group in Costa Rica.
Valued, experienced American workers were let go and the work was sent to Costa Rica.
About 3 years later, they started hearing reports of “Escapes” (Intel term for an ooops”
Validation Managers were thrown under the bus and blamed.
Very sad as great people were punished for something they were forced to implement.