It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software mistakes leading to a pair of deadly crashes. Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.
The Max software – plagued by issues that could keep the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week revealed a new flaw – was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace – notably India.
In offices across from Seattle’s Boeing Field, recent college graduates employed by the Indian software developer HCL Technologies Ltd. occupied several rows of desks, said Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer who worked in a flight-test group that supported the Max.
The coders from HCL were typically designing to specifications set by Boeing. Still, “it was controversial because it was far less efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code,” Rabin said. Frequently, he recalled, “it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly.”
And Apple wants to move phone manufacture there? Good luck.
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[–] 19458089? ago
Indians have a history of hijacking, stealing and destroying multinational corporations. Here's a list of companies roadrollered by Pajeet incorporated.
India, Inc. has a long and clear trail of corporate failures all over America and all over the world. Lower costs are meaningless if the workers can't produce products and services that work.
• General Motors
In 2006 GM was booming. That same year it signed a $300 million outsourcing deal with India's Wipro. GM collapsed a mere 3 years later.
• Lehman Brothers
Lehman bought a flawed software package Spectramind from Wipro in 2007. Wipro did not create Spectramind, but rather purchased it from a previous developer. The product worked before Wipro got its hands on it. Lehman also hired many workers from India who claimed to be financial experts, but in fact who had no previous financial experience.
• Bear Sterns
Bear Sterns also hired large numbers of Indian workers.
• Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae was one of the U.S. companies that had to be bailed out. But prior to that, it had hired huge numbers of workers from India - one of whom was found guilty of planting a software logic bomb in one of its servers. The best and the brightest indeed.
• Bell Labs
Bell Labs - where the transistor, communication satellite, UNIX, and the C programming language were all invented - was taken over by an Indian national (Arun Netravalli) in 2003. Bell Labs is now being turned into a shopping mall because it has become unable to produce any new innovation under Netravalli. Netravalli laid off all the American scientists and filled Bell Labs with "brilliant" imported Indian workers. He and his crew cleaned out Bell Labs and siphoned out all of its money and trade secrets. And we wonder why innovation has stalled in the U.S.? Thanks India - for killing America's most valuable research lab. One can only wonder at the vastness of American tech and trade secrets that have been looted out of Bell Labs.
• Quark, Inc.
Quark Inc, once the powerhouse of desktop publishing software was nearly ruined by an Indian national named Aulakh Kamar. Kamar, a former software tester conned his way into becoming CEO and laid off all the American developers at Quark. In one of the biggest epic cons in American history, he sent all the development work to India. The result? Quark's flagship product, Quark Express 6 was a total disaster and Quark lost 60% of its customers to Adobe. Kamar was later fired by the board when he was found out. But not before he did untold damage to Quark, Inc., ruining the company forever.
• Boeing
Boeing decided to outsource large parts of the work for its new luxury airplane, the 787 Dreamliner. As a result the project has been delayed many times - several years in fact. Boeing is being sued by several overseas airlines for business disruptions due to plane delivery delays. One of the major problems on the Dreamliner project was its new ILS and collision-detection software, written by India's HCL Technologies. The software was so bad it had to be re-written 3 times. HCL's racist CEO, Vineet Nayar loves to talk trash about American workers, but his own workers are unable to produce a product on time and on budget that works. So much for cost-cutting being good for companies.
• UK's Vodaphone has gone into serious decline, but not before its former Indian CEO walked off with $41 million in pay.
• Sun Microsystems + PeopleSoft
Both of these companies were taken over in early 2001 by armies of invading Indian + Chinese workers. All of them failed to innovate as promised. Both companies went into serious decline and had to be sold off in order for India, Inc. to avoid the embarrassment of having to close their doors while being run by 3rd world incompetents.
• World Bank
World Bank had to ban both Wipro + Satyam because they stole data and due to corruption.
[–] 19580610? ago
India is also the world center for scamming.
Search up "scambaiting" and you will quickly discover 99.9% of the scammers have Indian accents.
Imagine all the billions of dollars they're stealing every year from the west from these scams.
[–] 19507721? ago
inb4 POOIDF shills damage controll
[–] 19507272? ago
>>13449140
Good information, not sure why noone has capped it yet.
[–] 19507280? ago
Improved your cap with an archive
[–] 19489802? ago
I hate to interrupt a good copypasta against poo in loo's, but most of Bell Lab's team spun off into Lucent back in 1996. Netravalli was in charge of Bell Labs between 1999-2001, he was already out by 2003. Carly Fiorina is responsible for Lucent getting assfucked in 2000, since she did accounting bullshit to make it look like the company was fine when it was bleeding money. Then in 2001, Alcatel offered to merge with Lucent, but Henry B. Schacht refused to let Alcatel have more power. Lucent stock dropped hard, and the company started selling itself off piece by piece to stay alive. Later in 2006 when Alcatel made a similar offer with less generous terms, Lucent jumped at it.
I work in tech, and I hate poo in loo's, but Netravalli had nothing to do with Bell Labs having any issues, or Lucent's problems. Carly Fiorina was the problem for Lucent. The stagnant period at Bell Labs happened under Jeong Hun Kim's tenure, when Alcatel-Lucent decided to pull out of all major research into anything that wasn't code or networking. Please get your facts straight for future infodump copy pastas.