Boeing Whistleblower: Max 9 Production Line Has "Enormous Volume of Defects"

Re:Boeing Whistleblower: Max 9 Production Line Has "Enormous... by DandyDev on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:44PM (#39109496)

Disagree. You’re assuming that the quality of hires is limitless. In practice it doesn’t work like that. Unless you have a good reason to want the next Einstein or even Jeff Dean, you can hire a more that good enough person with limited time and resources and even a diverse and good enough person if you throw in some extra time and/or resources.

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Re:Boeing Whistleblower: Max 9 Production Line Has "Enormous... by cubefox on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:54PM (#39109661)

The assumption is that more competent hires do a better job on average. Aerospace is not an easy field, but even in much more simple jobs competence matters.

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Re:Boeing Whistleblower: Max 9 Production Line Has "Enormous... by DandyDev on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @06:00PM (#39111194)

You’re not reading my comments.

Yes, more competent hires do a better job. But there is a limit to how much competence you can hire per person. That means there is a limit - or at least severe diminishing returns - to how much more competence money will buy you.

That means you can opt to spend that money on DEI without losing out on competence

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Re:Boeing Whistleblower: Max 9 Production Line Has "Enormous... by cubefox on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @07:04PM (#39111777)

What limit? If you optimize for DEI your hires will be less competent on average. Possibly substantially less competent. The difference can mean the difference between life and death.

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