Boeing Commercial Airplanes Reviews

Pros

Various opportunities. Exciting Projects and decent benefit and pay. Relatively flexible culture. Good to work with world finest engineers and scientists

Cons

management likes to move people around to suit for different tasks and lower cost. Office working conditions and parking conditions are always a problem for people work in everett.

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage the knowledge transfer from experienced employee to the young employees. Provide fair promotion to the hard working, intelligent engineers instead of the "power-point" engineers.

Pros

Many projects to work on, managers want you to enjoy your internship, exciting atmosphere

Cons

Mundane work assignments that were boring.

Pros

Lots of exposure
Treated like full time employee
Allowed access to full scope of company

Cons

"One of the herd"
Other interns got less-than-exciting responsibilities/work

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up early-hiring process...its grabbing a lot of top students before other companies get a chance

Pros

- Travel perks are good
- Work life balance is great
- Company products are well respected
- Job profile can be stretched, if interested

Cons

- Sometimes, promotion is tough to come by for well deserving candidates
- Would like to see better management capabilities in senior management

Advice to Senior Management

- Better HR policies
- Help people to move across various organizations, if suitable to do so
- Impart better management training to future leaders

Pros

The best reason to work at Boeing is that you work on airplanes. BCA is also a good place if you value work/life balance.

Cons

Meetings, meetings, meetings.... Decision by consensus really stymies development and kills momentum. Oh and did I mention meetings. There are too many meetings! Yikees...

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage and develop talent! Move fast and make decisions. Please join the 21st century in terms of information technology. Develop 30-something leaders as more and more people retire...

Pros

Challenging, cutting-edge work, great benefits, good pay, and the opportunity to advance if one works hard at setting and completing goals

Cons

Union stranglehold over hourly workforce leaves those who aren't on board with the union's political agenda feel misrepresented. Instances of nepotism are a little too frequent, with unqualified individuals securing jobs over qualified people, simply because of family relations or "knowing a guy that knows a guy".

Advice to Senior Management

Separate family members to different work sites. People notice, and it corrodes morale. Be a little less greedy with information that could affect the work force that isn't strictly "need to know". Most of us love our jobs and respect management as is due the supervisor/subordinate relationship, but we sometimes feel that the feeling isn't mutual.

Pros

the people and work environment at the company

Cons

Strikes and diffuiculty moving to a new position with the new HR Process.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize employees

Pros

salary,insurance ,education, vip package, conference attendance

Cons

union, no virtual, location, climate, parking

Pros

Great work life balance if you are non-hourly.
Management rarely bothers you (not really a good thing for most).
Jobs in BCA are a cakewalk
You will be paid
Great Health insurance

Cons

Awful management
Awful retentions
Bias treatment
Lack of professionalism in all levels
Lack of development
Lack of opportunities
Lack of proper compensation
Lack of everything really

Advice to Senior Management

First off, learn to lead. If you can't inspire others and motivate them, step down. You are making things worse. It is OK to not be a great leader, not many are. I certainly am not. Stop leaning on experience. It isn't everything. There are very, very capable 20-somethings and 30-somethings that can and will walk circles around even the executives of all BCA programs. So, respect ambitious people and promote their ambitions. Give them the chance to learn and excel. Stop forcing people to sit down, shut up , and grind. You will continue losing young people if you force them to wait 5-10 years for a chance to make a new grade, even if they are capable much earlier.

Also, pay better. 65 billion in revenue and you rarely give people market value when you hire and or promote them? Seriously? Most people are happy to make market value, so I am baffled as to why you don't do this when your revenues are sky high. Last but not least, a majority of jobs require little actual time to be spent at the office, yet many programs force you to be there, even when the weather is awful. In fact, you either take a sick day or vacation day, or you lose money. Yet another thing that makes people very upset. We are all adults, treat us like an adult and wonderful things will happen. Does it mean baby or pamper us? No, but being respectful and giving us the tools and the chances to succeed will go a long way in keeping the company competitive.

Pros

good money, challenging work and an excellent set of co-workers. This is a world leader in aviation and the opporunities are fantastic.

Cons

Too much bureaucracy, the decisions seemed to get muddled up in a sea of paperwork. As a large company with much to risk, it is very conservative.

Advice to Senior Management

To make an increased effort to listen to low-level employee feedback.