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The true cost of Boeing’s firing senior engineers and outsourcing its design/software to foreign companies can be measured in lives lost and quality neglected all for a few dollars more in profit, which they didn’t get anyway due to delays and cost overruns.

From J. Stones site:

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

Here are key quotes from this Bloomberg report

Engineers complain that Boeing is employing programmers for $9 per hour and the software is junk

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 plane maker 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.

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. “I was shocked that in a room full of a couple hundred mostly senior engineers we were being told that we weren’t needed, ” said Rabin, who was laid off in 2015.

“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.”

The 787 entered service three years late and billions of dollars over budget in 2011, in part because of confusion introduced by the outsourcing strategy. Under Dennis Muilenburg, a longtime Boeing engineer who became chief executive in 2015, the company has said that it planned to bring more work back in-house for its newest planes.

My comment: The paper under the text is screaming, YES, and when you do it in house, BRING BACK THE ANGRY WHITE MALES.

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