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.
the article is from five years ago, surely this didn't backfire on them
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.
the article is from five years ago, surely this didn't backfire on them
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they should be required by law to place visible warnings when you get on the plane that flight critical software was developed in India
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this product is known to the state of California to have been produced using resources and/or labor from India.
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Sikhs being mistaken for muslims (their sworn enemies) never fails to make me laugh
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please do the needful and disable test that makes code merge fail
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I am still mad we opened a europoor office that forced us to wake up early for meetings when previously our day started at 11. One dude somehow got a task to make changes to our core client services and he legit had all of the tests commented out when he made his PR.
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The only Yuropoor office I ever interacted with devolved into us seething and malding with the Londoncels about how our Portugalcels were so fricking tech inept and kept getting scammed by Ukrainians somehow.
The war at least stopped most of it.
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For me they are just bad programmers. Like one of them got a task to add an * when something has been edited but not saved. It took them like 6 PRs to get it working in which they broke core functionality multiple times.
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You don't hate middle management enough. You think you do, but you don't.
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Makes you wonder who really has their smoke alarm beeping all the time.
In the early 1960s when Boeing was designing the 727 they knew they couldn't compete with the labor costs in impoverished Europe, but instead of outsourcing they decided to build a plane so good that it was worth paying a lot more for. Modern Boeing has turned this completely butt backwards.
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ADT went with this approach in the alarms department. They fired everyone with any know how and started using contractors with no experience, including office staff.
Theoretically the database kept info on all clients so they knew what was were and the new systems were wireless and remotely initialized.
In reality the DB was on OS/2 and badly out of date because of temp office staff who didnt know and didnt care. The company stopped being able to support legacy systems or do any kind of troubleshooting.
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I guarantee 99% of zoomers have no idea what this is.
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Still in use in a lot of places. You'd be surprised/appalled.
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I didn't know until I worked there...4 years ago lmao
It was so hilariously out of date it was unreal
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Snapshots:
https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/boeings-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers:
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Heck I am a Reactcel from Serbia and even I earn more.
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