> making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India.

I have always wondered about the consequences of vast numbers of devs working in fields they barely understand (myself included) and the relatively rapid churn of those devs.

That being said, in most places I have worked, developers don't get a lot of influence in big picture decisions. If Boeing is like that, it would not have mattered.