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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[–] 19472605? ago
I lost my coding job in 2016 but it was at a game company. Damn pajeets only hire other pajeets to the point its Little Calcutta and then you're outed from the job after finishing a big project, "because you pulled it off Aryan, now let the Dravidian get into the shell the Aryan made".
I don't hate pajeet or gook for it. Both are just using racial tribalism to ensure their race overcomes another race, in this case, the White race but its so fucking hard to convince any White I've met to act even a little in the interest of the White race. Either you'll get "I don't see race/race doesn't exist", The White race is going away, its just going to happen" or "The White race deserves to die because its done terrible things".
Even Hitler didn't have to deal with such rhetoric as far as I'm aware. Which means we'll have to be greater than Hitler if Final Victory is to be secured. Is that even possible?
[–] 19478742? ago
WHY would you CHOOSE to work for a company that has indian hiring managers?
Do you have no self respect?
Christ, man. NEVER work for an indian.
Go fucking move to eastern europe or some non-cucked country if you have to. The West is basically fucked at this point and cannot be saved. Let the nigger indians have the West, the West is too far gone to save.
[–] 19478748? ago
I don't think you have to worry about that. Because they wouldn't hire you anyway. Years of working with Indians you'll find they have levels of nepotism even the Jews cannot keep up with. You put one Indian in a managerial position and watch as the entire department becomes Indian. Naturally, they'll cry racism if you point this out but thank god the left and lobbyists hates and doesn't give a damn about Indians so we can put a stop and get away with it before it's too late.
[–] 19478725? ago
Who knows. All one can do at this point is ride the tiger.