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Yeah - the mass casualties with regards to Max, changed things a lot. Boeing used to be about enginering; that quality dropped indeed decades ago. Not sure why

• tremon 4mo ago
  Not sure why or how There's plenty of documentation to be found on the why and how, especially following the 737Max issues: https://team-fsa.com/insights/what-happened-to-boeings-culture/ https://team-fsa.com/insights/what-happened-to-boeings-cultu... > Following the 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas, Boeing’s robust culture eroded. Subsequent safety issues with the Boeing 737 have put the company under international scrutiny and underscored the profound impact of a weakened corporate culture. As Forbes aptly put it, “Boeing’s current travails about safety issues with the 737 MAX 9 can arguably be traced to the company’s weak corporate culture.” Or read https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/why-boeings-problems-with-737-max-began-more-than-25-years-ago https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/why-boeings-pr... for Harvard's take on the same situation.
  • p_l 4mo ago
    The best and understated part about it is that the culture change was pushed from Boeing side, and at least some people from McD side of the merger were pushing internal memos warning about actions pushed by Boeing-lifer CEO exemplified in then ongoing 7X7 program (future 787)
• lelanthran 4mo ago
  > Boeing used to be about enginering; that quality dropped indeed decades ago. I just pointed out in a different thread that software is going through that right now.