As I talked to Boeing retirees and esp current Boeing employees - I became very saddened about what has happened on the Boeing IT side of the house in the 4 years since I retired.

Since I left 80+% of the Boeing IT employees have been laid off mainly due to outsourcing. Most of the infrastructure folks went to Dell or elsewhere. It is in a very, very sad state of affairs. During my 35 year long career working in IT at Boeing - we did some amazing things. We had some incredible technical talent. Around the year 2000 Microsoft and others came hard after lots of our computing employees because of their technical skills and experience. Later on it was Amazon, Starbucks, Costco, etc. Some of the brightest and smartest people in the industry worked in computing at Boeing. They are just a shell/skeleton of that skillbase now.

My only hope is that the engineering side of Boeing is not in the same state of affairs. They haven't done near the same level of outsourcing that IT has, but the outsourcing culture stinks throughout the company due to Stonecipher, Condit, McNerney, Muilenberg, and Calhoun. For the past 2+ decades the GE mentality (esp from McNerney) has greatly weakened the company. I still have hope things can get turned around and the engineering and technical culture can return, but it's going to have to be a specific change in direction and culture. I'll be interested to see who the new CEO will be. Calhoun is part of the problem - not the solution.