Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

[Takket]

Source: Bloomberg

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.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers


but we don't need regulations.............

[onecaliberal]

1. Words fail..

[Wellstone ruled]

2. You get what you pay for.

Sounds like there is a Hardware Issues involving a Emergency Cut Out Button on the Pilot Control Yoke. A delay in Electronic Transmission of some sort. Which will mean,a major Software rewrite as well as testing which could be months in the doing..

[onetexan]

3. Exactly the problem

I've seen my company lay off whole US teams & replace them with cheap workers overseas. Then little gets accomplished and management wonders why.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. In my pervious work a world life,

saw whole Engineering Departments closed on Friday at 4 O'clock never to open again. E-mail to all the Engineers at 3:59 with their termination notices. Not once but twice. One was a Chip Design Firm and the other was a CRM software group.

[Initech]

5. Another problem that can be solved with regulations and inspections.

No regulation? You get planes that crash themselves into the ground and incompetent software engineers.