Who here is a fan of Boeing India? I remember quitting shortly after I had to work with the new hires in India. IT was slimy and didn't tell the truth. Then laid off some of my friends.
Boeing is getting what has been coming to them for a long time.
Meanwhile Dave Calhoun is enjoying life in his golden parachute.
Moo
Nice enough people (the individual contributors) in Boeing India IT, but not same level of knowledge and experience as people they are replacing. They know it too. But management there are setting most IT and software development projects up for failure by taking on more quantity and complexity than they can handle (and then will ask question later when sh*t hits the fan) - but they don't know it because they aren't technical enough to figure it out and are ignoring their engineers who are raising these concerns early. Adding on top of this the current top-heavy org structure of Boeing (ratio of 5 non-tech managers for every 1 engineer).
Everything in development or very recently gone into production and being "handed-over" India teams to continue development/implementation will unravel quickly. Very well-established (legacy) systems which are heavily documented and mostly need "keep the lights on" might carry on okay for a while. But unless recruitment strategy changes in India, these won't be easily replaced and will further outlive their shelf-lives. Then the security breaches or impossible maintenance piles up and Boeing will funnel tens-of-millions to expensive external consultants to come in and shore things up at 10x the price while still selling it as the next "digital transformation" success and boosting their exec bonuses.
But hiring them internally as "Boeing India" they are just slapping a new name on the same old and tired strategy. In fact, a lot of the managers and engineers being hired there are coming directly from Tech Mahindra, Accenture, TCS, and Infosys... even from some Boeing projects which delivered poor value for money (and makes you wonder if it's a money laundering scheme). We doubt that these teams will be delivering any better as Boeing India employees.
The only silver-lining (and it's a very small consolation, overall) on the outsourcing of IT and SW Dev out of the Boeing US is with Poland. This site is well-run (by Boeing standards) and still has some pretty good engineers, and the ratio of managers to engineers is not too awful yet. But, they're still leaning pretty heavily on self-employed/agency contractors (due to beneficial Polish tax laws for these contractors). And a lot have been (rightfully) leaving Boeing the last few years, and it's becoming ever more difficult to convince those people to stay on, and when they leave they tend not to be replaced. And these will be the first people dropped with zero notice with the current "cash savings strategies" rolling out due to strikes.