Money saved by firing experienced engs and outsourcing the development Why is that so hard to understand? Massive fail at risk management maybe?
Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
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Re: Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
#12When is the media going to get the message that this wasn't a software issue?
But but but... there's a computer! It has to be a software issue!
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#13How in the world does one hire $9 an hour software engineers?
> Still, for the 787, HCL gave Boeing a remarkable price – free, according to Sam Swaro, an associate vice president who pitched HCL’s services at a San Diego conference sponsored by Avionics International magazine in June. He said the company took no up-front payments on the 787 and only started collecting payments based on sales years later, an “innovative business model” he offered to extend to others in the indus…
How is that allowed? It is like basically the equivalent of dumping products below market and production price like what China frequently does to steel.
Re: Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
#14How in the world does one hire $9 an hour software engineers?
You think everybody lives in San Francisco?
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#16When is the media going to get the message that this wasn't a software issue?
The final verdict isn't in, but it appears to have been a systems engineering problem with a software component.
Re: Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
#17When is the media going to get the message that this wasn't a software issue?
It will eventually fly with only software fixes, which will reinforce that picture.
Re: Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
#18Money saved by firing experienced engs and outsourcing the development Why is that so hard to understand? Massive fail at risk management maybe?
Can't sell planes, or fly the ones that exist, and pay out huge untold sums in death lawsuits.
Re: Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
#19When is the media going to get the message that this wasn't a software issue?
software put the plane in a nosedive. when are you going to accept that?
Re: Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to lower-paid engineers
#20How in the world does one hire $9 an hour software engineers?
> Still, for the 787, HCL gave Boeing a remarkable price – free, according to Sam Swaro, an associate vice president who pitched HCL’s services at a San Diego conference sponsored by Avionics International magazine in June. He said the company took no up-front payments on the 787 and only started collecting payments based on sales years later, an “innovative business model” he offered to extend to others in the indus…
How common is this, payment based on sales, and years later!? I guess you only do that with established companies? Still seems like a risk.