"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEarLGfqhvo&amp;t=5m15s"">5:15</a> former QA here for 4 years", currently a game designer. there is absolutely, unquestionably <b>no way in hell</b> the devs did not know that they have junior testers to work with. You can IMMEDIATELY tell the difference between a bug submitted by an experienced, well-versed tester versus a bug submitted by a junior with 6 months (or less) of experience.  While I'm absolutely convinced that Quantic Labs was applying "communist-style labor practices" (I'm from Romania as well, but the QA team I've worked for at the time was fortunately full of competent leads), CDPR devs claiming that they were not aware of working with juniors is a big fat lie.,(reply>), It sounds like they did realize, so quantic promised to give them senior testers, then just gave them more junior ones. They realized again, but CDPR management wasn’t willing to cut their losses, switch QA providers, and further delay launch.,(reply>), didn't he say that CDPR caught on to there being junior QAs sending thousands of trivial bugs? so, you gonna source another 10-20mil on another contract?,(reply>), You misunderstood. They said they didn’t know they were getting a bunch of junior testers since they were promised senior/veteran testers by Quantic. This is important because Quantic basically lied to them. They most likely found out real quick afterwards and had to work with what they had.,(reply>), @MrB Yeah, especially for a senior software dev/leader that has to go through the bug reports to prioritize work for the next sprint. Either they didn't care or they were discouraged to speak up as well.,(reply>), @Fred Fuchs not knowing that QA is made up of juniors has absolutely nothing to do with what contracts CDPR had in place. Covering it up so that the management seems more competent than they are is plausible. But I highly doubt that nobody on the dev side had suspicions over the QA team quality and not report said suspicions to management in meetings. Especially if there are contracts involved and terms that have been breached.