Originally Posted by
Steve M
IIRC, the minimum wage to support an H1B is $65,000/year, or $32.50/hour. The $9/hour figure is referring to works in India. The article has a lot of detail, but kind of jumps somewhat freely from "move design out of Boeing to outside companies" to "outside companies owned by Indian companies" to "Boeing offices in other countries" to "outsourced companies in India."
Right. The article has these two consecutive paragraphs:
“Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker 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.”
“In offices across from Seattle’s Boeing Field, recent college graduates employed by the Indian software developer
HCL Technologies Ltd. occupied several rows of desks, said Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer who worked in a flight-test group that supported the Max.”
That, to me at least, creates the impression that the $9 coders sit in offices across fro Boeing Field. After all, they are “from ... India”, not in India.
Shoddy writing, IMO, and I say that as someone who especially in this day and age often defends journalists and their work.
That said, having dealt with outsourcing and off-shoring of software engineering tasks for many years, the are other points in the article that definitely sound accurate.
Originally Posted by
Steve M
That part is almost as disturbing as all of the rest. Any company that spends money on consultants to implement such terminology with the hope that it will improve anything is suspect in my eyes.
So true. Every real engineer I know who hears the term “Center of Excellence” just cringes or barfs.