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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[–] 19458146? ago
Why hold boomer management responsible when silent gen senators and Trump are to blame for allowing h1-B visas in the first place?
[–] 19459063? ago
Because senators and CEO's will never hold themselves responsible.
Nail a few boomer middle managers with jail time and watch the whistleblowers start coming out of the woodwork everywhere. They wont go to jail to save the CEO if the order comes down to push out flawed code.
[–] 19459076? ago
Has this been tried? If so, who can we get behind? If not, why?
[–] 19458177? ago
boomers love indian workers since they can hire them for so cheap instead of expensive SKILLED white millennials.
>>13449351
because these jewish CEOs and companies want to destroy the West. Money is not important to them. They already own the banks
[–] 19459065? ago
You know that's the most annoying thing, all oldfags talk about is how kids are good with computers and yet the very first thing they do is hire some third-world bum who barely speaks english and knows absolutely fucking nothing about anything because their entire lives were spent playing in rivers filled with shit
[–] 19458180? ago
And they can because those silent gen members and in power and Trump won't put something like a 300k minimum salary on the "vital" h-1b visa. Trump even listened to his son in law and expanded the program.
[–] 19458179? ago
They are shocked when their businesses get destroyed. That is their punishment for being greeedy.