You cannot replace everyone with people who work for evosoft. How can the market trust us in a situation like that?

It’s been 10 years now since evosoft ”made the purchase”: roughly 20 tonnes of ”iron” and an 85-strong, already well-established team with it.  A completely new area (compared to the previous ones), system testing, has been added to the evosoft portfolio.

With such a major organizational change, the book says staff attrition is also high: on average, one in three people leaves within six months to look for a new job. Fortunately, we stood out and proved the statistics wrong: most of the team stayed together. Why? Because we trusted each other.

We came from outside and asked for trust. Faith in whatever was happening was a good thing, and the teams got to the right place. And this trust cannot be built by replacing the key players with evosoft employees who are the core members of the community.

A highly skilled team came together to get the Volkswagen factory back on its feet in just a few days, and the manufacturer travelled to Budapest just to thank the team in person. In the time of Covid, they were allowed into one of the cleanest labs in Europe. Sometimes they even get a phone call from Korea saying "Guys, we're standing in the factory. How are you getting on with fixing the bugs?"

István Petényi, the former and György Sándorfalvi, current Head of the System Test and Engineering Department, talked about the past, present and future of the System Test & Engineering Department.

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