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The Boeing 737 MAX’s software was outsourced to India. It all makes sense now (www.industryweek.com)

posted 5 days ago by redman012 5 days ago by redman012 +122 / -1

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

Mark Rabin, a former software engineer, recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature.

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– GiveThemNothing 19 points 5 days ago +19 / -0

Starting with the 787 Dreamliner, launched in 2004, it sought to increase profits by instead providing high-level specifications and then asking suppliers to design more parts themselves. The thinking was “they’re the experts, you see, and they will take care of all of this stuff for us,”

Typical managerial "thinking", engineers are fungible drones, the real "specifications" come from management.

What you get is 5yo level doodles drawn with crayons, handed down to a thousand $9/hr monkeys banging on keyboards.

What could possibly go wrong???

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– VaiTomaNoCu 1 point 5 days ago +1 / -0

It should be atypical. It's short term profiteering over long term value building and good will generation. This didn't used to be the norm in the aircraft manufacturing business.

It's typical wall street/hollywood thinking.

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