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by ConorSheehan1 1017 days ago
Other engineers don't take direct responsibility either. I've never heard of an individual engineer getting sued because a rocket they worked on exploded, or a bridge they built collapsed.

Plenty of tech companies do post mortems. This is almost certainly a failure of management. If a single engineer caused this, the process is broken.

What the tech industry needs is professional indemnity insurance and competent management.

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Here is an engineer that got sued because a bridge collapsed:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/engineer-designe...

Edit: And here is one from a crane collapsing:

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/health-and-safety/housing...