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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[–] 19458185? ago
The Indian lobby is a silent but significantly strong unit capable of lowering H1B restrictions when things get worse.
>>13449356
There's too many benefits that come with the destruction of west by mass immigration. Worst case, it's fresh meat for the bank loans.
[–] 19471896? ago
There might be an angle, or not? If loans for immigrants would be restricted, this could help. I had the same thought about our problems in Europe.
[–] 19471899? ago
I don't think Muslims take loans from non-Muslims, they have their own banking system. At any rate, the Muds that set up shop in Europe do so to have a legal front for their crime business. You can safely assume any Döner shop only exists to scam welfare/citzenship/launder money