"What the market demands"? I thought that was surviving, living through your flight, no crash, not sucked out the door, no PTSD It got overtaken by what the stock market demands - maximum short-term profit.
I've always engineered products for reliability and long life- but that's old school now. You would not believe the amount of flak I get for specifying Chemi-con/Nichicon capacitors instead of the "good enough" china specials that last precisely 3 years - and are 1/20th the price. The Consumer Attitude has permeated everything including management theory. Bean counters want it done as quickly and cheaply as possible, even though that has drastic consequences. As long as you can CYA.
Auto-throttle is to save fuel and engine wear and tear for takeoff (not sure why it's used for landing) . It's got serious problems, in service on the 737-800 to this day - who do you blame for that?
MCAS being outsourced to unqualified S/W people, on the cheap- what the market demands? No, I think it's the stock market justifying criminal action to feed their greed. As long as you an CYA.
Now Boeing is taking engineers out of other divisions to help out Commercial, oops should not have fired all those engineers. It's so much like a clown car.
Who would want to work as an engineer at Boeing?
bro, the surmise is, its run marauder style now. what like 60% of upper managmenet are always threatening to quit or lookin for other jobs. viking shit
if you even say something like "well I don't wanna deal with this in 5 years" your get "your an idiot for planning to stay at this company for 5 years". I mean usually its pretty much bullshit, but they act like that. I think people think they gets em more raises so its de facto standard now. and quality is shit because everything turns into a 'back of the van' type operation. Then you got someone thats been there for 20 years tryin to convince you that being a 'wear element' is the way to go to your bright career (at a different company), so you don't buy the chemi-con and gold plating of significant thickness. Why did that guy quit after 6 months? well its part of my plan see, to get you a better job see.
its the corrosion style of management, that is, get some engineer to act like a zinc corrosion protector (just throw it out when it takes too much damage).
Job description : galvanic anode
then the industry is like a onion router, no one in any senior position is actually senior. they just hire replacements from the job pool at senior levels. At some point I think there needs to be another title that ensures the person your dealing with was actually AT that company to get any kind of seniority, you know... to weigh his ability to judge 'senior' level decisions. Because the way alot of things are structured right now, it should say "intern engineer" instead of "senior engineer".
so its like, the safety approval committee, comprised of three intern engineers, hired at a senior level... judged that...