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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[–] 19465592? ago
Technology is the white man's sword and shield. It's the most powerful asset we have, and seeing it bled, siphoned, stolen, and outright given to undeserving roaches who'd never develop it on their own in a billion years makes me seethe with rage.
Fuck me, if I ever claw my way to the top and seize the reins of power, I'll quarantine and technologically strangle India, Africa, China, and South America, driving them back into the stone age, until they revert to the level of fauna - their rightful place in the natural order.
We could've been settling the solar system by now. Instead, we feed the third world, and watch helplessly as the flowers of white technological brilliance are stolen from us by conniving street shitters, bugmen, and unwashed desert merchants.
Fuck this life. It's a goddamn prison; nothing good exist here.
[–] 19505929? ago
My time machine sends non-whites to Auschwitz in 1943 no matter what destination they input.
[–] 19507718? ago
You must really like them if you want them to have swimming pools and theaters.