These were outsourced developers working in India for Boeing. Boeing cut out all the middlemen and got them for rock-bottom prices. Somewhere between $5 and $9 per hour. Let's see American or European developers "compete" with that!
The results do not speak well for the competence of Indian software development training or Boeing management. "But they are so cheap", say the executives.
I understand. I see cheap labor, as the prime motivation of mgmt, the same - whether on foreign soil or in-country as H1-Bers.