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As one of the Partners who participated in the interview, I'm sorry you've interpreted the discussion as 'antagonistic'. We believe strongly that great QA helps us deliver great software and have hired one of Ottawa's best QA Managers to lead our team. The questions were intended to help us understand if you're pragmatic or dogmatic in your approach to QA. We certainly are not looking to have candidates convince us of the necessity for testing, but rather to have a conversation that helps us understand if we see the world the same way.
The Caliper discussion was not intended to make you feel defensive. We don't take the results as absolute truth and prefer to have an open conversation with candidates to understand how they interpret the results.
We were impressed with your experience and made an offer hoping you would join our team. I'm sorry things didn't work out and wish you the best.