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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[–] 19471563? ago
H1B is just a permanent vacation for the pajeets to leave their shithole and move into the west. Trump just planned made it more easier for them.
[–] 19478722? ago
And if an H1-B holder gets themselves an American lover its all the more easier to get themselves naturalized.
[–] 19478739? ago
the only men willing to fuck these ugly fat white american women are indians. Indian men will marry those dumb cunts, get a green card, then divorce her and marry a traditional indian girl from their home village.
White american women are scum so i laugh at them getting scammed by indian men.
[–] 19478724? ago
I don't know what to complain about. The hideous tranny face or the significant age gap.
Getting a citizenship looks too easy. What the fuck.
[–] 19471565? ago
If these people were talented and highly skilled, the countries they came from wouldn't be turd world.
[–] 19472604? ago
This. Disgusting excuses for human being is what they are; nothing more, nothing less.