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[cellio]

Last week the director of engineering sent email announcing prizes for an "improve our tests" hackathon. He labelled one prize (about finding and fixing the most bugs) as "write yourself a minivan".

Later, in response to questions, he sent a copy of the 24-year-old Dilbert strip.

Over the weekend our CTO, in response to questions, sent email explaining what a minivan was.

I'll be over here, weeping into my prune juice and yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

I hope he understood the perverse incentive which the strip pointed out.

[cellio]

He did, and acknowledged it. There's going to be human review, so if somebody were to abuse it that'd get caught. Also, the incentive in this case (for one person, not a per-bug bounty like the PHB's) is low-stakes, so not worth investing a lot of time in stealth bugs.