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The true cost of $9/hour engineers

Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 5:17 pm
by jacksonM
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeings- ... 57048.html

I lost my job a few years ago due to the fact that the company I worked for made a decision that 90% of software development was going to be "off-shored" to India. Wasn't that big of a deal to me because I planned to retire soon any way and I appreciated the six months of severance pay helping me to transition to my new life (from which I have had absolutely no regrets and never looked back for even a second, BTW).

If this story is to believed, people flying on the 737 max may have a different perspective.

It's just writing code and testing it after all. How hard can it be?

Re: The true cost of $9/hour engineers

Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:18 am
by boglerdude
Not India's fault that Boeing's being cheap. Hopefully there will be criminal prosecution

Airbus had two crashes caused by over-automation. I'm still trying to figure out why they think unlinked sidesticks/joysticks are better than yokes with tactile feedback.