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Four out of 15 of Boeing's Executive Council have engineering degrees. https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/ https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/
by ilamont 7y ago
Four out of 15 of Boeing's Executive Council have engineering degrees. https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/ https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/
- CydeWeys 7y agoInterestingly, only one has a degree in CS, and there's no other computer-aligned degree represented in the board. They have plenty of lawyers though. I bring this up because software is incredibly important for flying these planes, and the 737 MAX disaster was caused in part by bad software (MCAS). They were outsourcing its development to $9/hr contractors, which if they treated software as more of the core competency that it actually is for them, they would never have done.
- pizlonator 7y agoOk fine I’ll play. Having an engineering degree and being an engineer aren’t exactly the same thing. Like, Colbert has an engineering degree to do with “information systems”. Deal’s resume is mostly about supply chains. Hyslop gets to call himself an engineer, so ok, that’s one. Uddanwadiker is an engineer, but IT. So there is one actual aero engineer in the C suite. I exaggerated (it’s the internet so what fun it is to exaggerate) but not by much. Point is, these people aren’t the dream team I’d pick to design airplanes.