Boeing Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Most everyone is very pleasant to work with, better than any other company I have ever worked for. First level managers are good and easy to get along with.

Cons – All interesting research is outsourced to universities and small companies. Every year the budget for research shrinks as research is outsourced to new centers opened overseas, partly for political reasons. Edicts from management several levels above are constantly coming down, along with an endless set of bureaucratic rules that consume 40% or more of your time, even though you are expected to charge 5% or less to overhead. All management decisions from above appear to be consistent with a long range plan of marginalizing current researchers and outsourcing research. Layoffs occur every year, even in good times.

Advice to Senior Management – If the goal is to eliminate research please be transparent about it. If not, please consult the employees rather than making unilateral decisions that are continually making it harder to do our work. Reduce micromanagement by letting immediate managers have budget, and encourage them not to just track and meet metrics but help us find conduits to customers within the company -- it's a big company and finding these connections requires help, as in all corporate research centers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than a year

Pros – There are great benefits at this company, including healthcare and insurance, Employee Incentive Program, Boeing Discount Program, etc. Good paid-time off and pay for OT.

Cons – This is a big company so sometimes you can feel very small. Reach out and network to make a spot for yourself!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Many opportunities across the company

Cons – Takes a long time to get promoted

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great place to work with challenging software code, architectures, and designs.

Cons – Too many people retired in place preventing ability to move up.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits and opportunities for personal improvement are awesome

Cons – The climate in California for companies like Boeing is not great. I would target Boeing sites outside California as layoffs are common in Huntington Beach and the campus's future is uncertain.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Boeing

Pros – Treated well and flexible schedule.

Cons – Most people in your group are twice your age.

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Friendly people, fairly low stress, good benefits, paid overtime, cool products.

Cons – Decisions come from management down - engineers not very empowered or encouraged to be innovative. It is very difficult to change jobs. There are many senior engineers so even if you have a lot of experience it is hard to advance into positions of greater responsibility.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to engineers. Not just a handful of senior engineers either.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great benefits. Normally solid employment situation. No longer has pension for new employees. Huge company with lots of locations around country and globe.

Cons – Huge company makes it feel less personal. Current DoD economy has caused worst employment stability in 10 years that I've worked here.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are sooo many opportunities within Boeing. If you are somewhere you don't want to be or simply would like to know more what else is out there, everyone is more than willing to help...you just have to reach out. For younger employees, there is a helpful emphasis placed on mentoring and career development, and a lot of ways to get involved, both within Boeing and also through the community. And on the fun side, Boeing has all sorts of sports leagues and recreational clubs in the Puget Sound!

Cons – Slow moving for proposed changes as things have to go through endless numbers of approvals with management and upper management. Networking is essential for moving around. While it's understandable, it also feels a bit fake.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Boeing full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – It's a fun, family atmosphere. Great technology, great people, making a daily job of doing things that used to be impossible.

Cons – Upper management is clueless in a Dilbertish way. The constant shifting of org charts does nothing to help the fundamentally disorganized structure of the company; it's hard to find the people you need. Certain things are hideously inefficient: Ordering small parts and supplies typically requires an amount of red tape that greatly exceeds the price of what you're ordering, and I've often seen people go through five hours' worth of finance paperwork, phone calls, trying to find out where the process stalled, perhaps for weeks, to get a one hour, one person job done.

Advice to Senior Management – Penny wise, pound foolish. First thing to fix is the finance department, which is a wreck. Next, how about attracting some people to replace all the high-end engineers who are retiring in a decade or so? Don't forget, it takes eight or ten years for a good engineer to really learn how this whole building-a-jet-airplane thing works. You'd probably better start finding and keeping engineering grads now, or you won't have the skills available to continue development a decade from now.

Facilities (puget sound) should also be cracked down on; they're getting away with too much. How about some accountability?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend