Software (controls) engineers at VW during the emissions scandal went to jail, engineers at GM were held liable for the ignition switch issue (not mostly in software, but still). I expect we'll eventually see some engineers/low level managers thrown under the bus with Boeing. It definitely happens, but not as frequently as it could. That said, I definitely prefer Amazon's response to the AWS East 1 outage back in 2016 -- the engineer wasn't blamed, despite the relatively simple screw up, but the processes/procedures were fixed so that it didn't happen again in the last 8 years. Crowdstrike is a little bit gray on that regard -- people should have known how bad the practice of zero testing on config updates was, but then again, I've seen some investigating saying that the initial description wasn't fully accurate, so I'm waiting for the final community after action report before I really pass judgement.