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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[–] 19459100? ago
This is a moment of potential greatness, you should feel lucky to live in a time when you have a chance to prove yourself like this, you should thank powers greater than you often for providing you with the chance to show everyone what you are. We prove our worth or die in bloody gore. Rugii has grown the wheat fields for far to long, the One-Eyed mower has to clean his ranges.
[–] 19465480? ago
bla bla bla Fedpost bla bla
Fuck off mr Fedman
Hourly reminder that any poster who is indirectly promoting the idea of a violent civil war is a glow in the dark nigger Fedposter
[–] 19465486? ago
>>13449538
Protip: just because glowniggers are trying to entrap anons into violently lashing out in a manner that would suit glownigger plans does not mean that the use of force is not an eventual necessity.
[–] 19465485? ago
>>13449538
get a load of this reddit samefag
[–] 19465482? ago
any poster promoting violence, or even indirectly insinuating the idea of violence is a fedposter
It seems that literally 50% of the users on here are now FBI agents.
LOL what a joke.
8chan is literally just a bunch of FBI agents shitposting at each other.