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notquiteaff
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.
It's beyond shoddy. It's intentionally misleading. Admittedly, I say this as someone who has zero respect for the media in this country.
This is the part that worries me:
Rabin, the 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.
Not exactly an unbiased source but anyone who works in this field knows what happens to quality when you get rid of your senior people.