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I work at a company doing something very similar, owned by an aerospace giant as well. We are led to believe that safety is the most important aspect of any pa
by danbr 7y ago
I work at a company doing something very similar, owned by an aerospace giant as well.
We are led to believe that safety is the most important aspect of any part of our work. At least that’s what we’re told at group meetings and company-wide meetings. But when push comes to shove and the (arbitrary) schedule demand a test, hacky code is produced, checks fall off the list, and errors do happen.
Progress seems to be more important than safety. We are instructed to show some sort of significant return on investment within 6-12 months for the funding we’ve received. It’s pretty sad.
Telling mangers that we need to take it low and slow at first makes them angry and ignore the engineers who do the good work in exchange for engineers who do it fast.
- mgrennan 7y ago"checks fall of the list" issue has always been a thing. There is a term in electronics call "Muntzing". Named after Earl Muntz who, after the engineers created a thing (TV) he would start pulling parts until it failed. Then call it good. This did two things. Made the product cheaper and caused service calls to fix (Put back parts). He made money both ways. The "Anti Safty" issue is management's form of Muntzing the code.
- jacquesm 7y agoScariest comment on HN in a long time. Also, you probably think you're anonymous and safe in setting this comment out here but you and your employer are trivially identifiable from this comment and a couple of others made on HN so you may want to petition the mods to kill this comment on the off chance that your employer gets wind of this, it might be a career limiting thing.