What are the minimum requirements for joining QA?asked by I'm Diab

QA is the starting point for so many people. We have lead producers who started as QA. We have directors who have started as QA. It's a wonderful entry point for almost any path.

It is, I would go as far as saying it is the best entry point. The best producers, it looks like I'm patting myself on the back here, but the best producers I've known in this industry came from QA. Just because it's so versatile, you have your hands everywhere, you have such a top vision of a project when you work in QA, it's pretty similar. When I made the transition to production, it wasn't that big of a jump. Just because I had visibility on the entirety of the project, how it was going, when the patches were coming out, how many bugs were there, what state the maps were in. And to answer the question of minimum requirements, I just hired a dev QA embedded on my team who has zero experience, but the guy has a good background and he looks hungry to learn. And sometimes it's even better to get people with no experience because...

You have to untrain them.

Exactly. It's a blank slate. They didn't catch any bad habit yet from other places. So sometimes it's a blessing in disguise.

And I guess the will to learn is a huge point. When we hire juniors, when we go through the filtering in the interviews, sometimes it's them showing the willingness to learn. That's a big factor, I find, for selection.

The most important.

I like an inexperienced person with potential a million times more than an old wolf who doesn't really want to prove himself.

Because there's less baggage and bad habits.

And is over it. Because there are a lot of those too.

People that show passion. There are still good old wolves who still want to work and have this fire inside.

Oh, there's a ton of that too. I'm not generalizing, but...