as a software engineer, I would bet this is pretty common generally for companies above a certain size, unfortunately the industry can be a bit of a meat grinder for inexperienced people, less than 3-5 years, and companies often have literally hundreds of fresh bodies per position waiting at any given moment, so you end up with an industry where something like 50% of people have less than 5 years of experience due to turn around,(reply>), I was in QA over 10 years ago and I only did it for about a year. I came to wall and my choice was either try and save my love of Games or continue the Grind. QA is treated like trash and no matter how hard you work to try and help a Game you often see nothing for it but your name in the Credits, if your lucky. No one survives long in QA if you love Games.