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"It's as if I'm watching a troubled child" is how Captain Dennis Tajer describes flying a Boeing 737 Max.

"The culture at Boeing has been toxic to trust for over a decade now," (Adam Dickson, a former senior manager at Boeing) says.

Five years ago Boeing faced one of the biggest scandals in its history, after two brand new 737 Max planes were lost in almost identical accidents that cost 346 lives.

The cause was flawed flight control software, details of which it was accused of deliberately concealing from regulators.

Meanwhile, further evidence of how production problems could endanger safety emerged this week.

The FAA warned that improperly installed wiring bundles on 737 Max planes could become damaged, leading to controls on the wings deploying unexpectedly, and making the aircraft start to roll.

If not addressed, it said, this "could result in loss of control of the airplane". Hundreds of planes already in service will have to be checked as a result.

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[–] werefreeatlast 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had the pleasure of interviewing several engineers from Boeing with PhDs and almost the worst interviews ever. Very awkward interviews and possibly the worst in person interview ever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you publish these? It would be interesting to read!

Or maybe give some more insight here onto what you mean by "worst interview". That could be so many things... 😉

[–] werefreeatlast 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How can a PhD engineer fail an interview among barely junior engineers? And fail it so badly that it officially became our worse interview ever?

This person also had the audacity to call back and several times to demand to be interviewed again. During the interview I would ask simple engineering questions like "can you elaborate on F=ma" and the guy, instead of giving a straight answer "it's the relationship between the force applied to a mass and the acceleration achieved" he would go in these crazy ass rants about stuff I can't repeat and can't remember. You know the stuff very well...like when your wife, husband or life partner starts talking to you about your mom and you love your mom so you shut down the listening port on your brain. Just ehem and uhumed the rest of the interview. It was bad. It was so bad that the junior engineers told me it was bad. Usually they hold judgment out of respect.

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of my worst interview, though the candidate wasn't phd. It was a recent bachelor's grad doing a remote interview and he obviously had someone helping him (we could hear them whispering). Funny part was neither of them had a clue so the guy cheated but still gave among the worst responses.

I can only assume he cheated his way to graduation, too.