Boeing

Design aircraft, or at least parts of them.

CYA rules. Too many McDonnell Douglas types in management positions. MD made the best military aircraft you could want, but the worst commercial airliners. McNerney is not an aircraft guy, and it shows. Now the company hires pedigrees, not talent. The Wright Brothers would not get an interview, same with Jack Northrop or Glenn Curtiss. This should tell you something. Diversity is the name of the game… all about PC, not about aircraft engineering. They hire people who know nothing about aircraft engineering yet are the right [redacted due to NSA]. Now they are looking to only hire young people… most of which couldn’t tell you how [redacted due to NSA] yet hold a degree from some over-expensive institution. The fact that this is illegal doesn’t seem to matter. They seem to think having engineers over 50 is some type of liability instead of strength. The 787 is the end result of this, arguably the worst aircraft Boeing ever designed. It’s a black aluminum nightmare.

Remember that at least half or more of the people giving you an interview under the new guidelines would not have passed the same interview type when they were hired.

Figure out how to hire talent, not pedigrees. And stop with the pre-employment assessment test; it’s insulting and a sure mark of a company that is screwed up. Anyone with a good background can tell whether a person knows what they’re doing with three questions.

Stop looking to hire only younger people. The stress on the older engineers to educate these clowns prevents efficient engineering and oversight.

Get rid of or at least change the mid-management problem. They have a completely different design philosophy than Boeing.

Start hiring ONLY American engineers and stop importing engineers from third-world holes. Most of these engineers never even made a paper airplane when they were kids, but you fall all over them because they’re cheap.