A recent Bloomberg report reveals some shocking information on the cause of the two Boeing 737 Max crashes that resulted from some basic software mistakes: some of the software development work was outsourced to $9-an-hour engineers.
Boeing has reportedly been outsourcing temporary work at an increasing rate,and the report suggests that the Max software was being developed by workers that made as minute as $9 an hour — in many cases from countries like India, which don’t have a strong background in aerospace.
Indian software developer HCL Technologies Ltd. reportedly contributed many employees, or while the workers were required to follow Boeing specifications,stamp Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer that worked supporting Max, and said that “it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly.”Business nowadays reports that Boeing even fired several senior engineers that the company didn’t believe were needed,as it felt their products were far enough along in the development cycle.Click here to continue and read more...
Source: inquisitr.com