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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.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...hour-engineers
Nope. Still no cigar.
There is no proof whatsoever that Boeing has employed subcontractors whose employees make $9 per hour to write code for the MAX. Same with SysDude's dead link to what is supposedly pay scales in India, which has no relevance at all to this subject.
The Bloomberg writer's assertion that India has no aerospace culture is laughable. Notable German aircraft designer Kurt Tank (perhaps you've heard of the Focke-Wulf 190) became one of the founders of the modern Indian aircraft industry, beginning a long career there in 1955, just eight years after India won its independence from Great Britain:
Tank worked as Director of the Madras Institute of Technology, where one of his students was Abdul Kalam (later Kalam became President of India and designed indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle(SLV) and Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme). Kurt Tank later joined Hindustan Aeronautics, where he designed the Hindustan Marut fighter-bomber, the first military aircraft constructed in India. The first prototype flew in 1961; the Marut was retired from active service in 1985.
The above-mentioned Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam was an instrumental contributor to Indian aerospace industry as well as president of India between 2002 and 2007. As noted, Dr. Kalam did pioneering work on rocketry and missile programs for the government.
Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam :: BrahMos.com
BrahMos Aerospace is a capable and respected firm that builds missiles and satellites.
BrahMos Aerospace - An India Russia Joint Venture
But all I read in these articles regarding the 737MAX and its software is innuendo the semi-ignorant Indians work for Ebenezer Scrooge levels of recompense, while producing work that is filled with errors and must be corrected by real engineers in America. To the horror of Boeing ex-employee Mr. Rabin, we find the recently graduated Indians are at desks just across the street from Boeing. My God!
It appears you both have been fed supposition and innuendo dressed up as news for so long, you cannot ascertain the difference between imputation and factual statements.