Boeing Reviews in Everett, WA

Pros

Good Work, Variety within job, opportunity for advancement.

Cons

Very, very large company and can get a little impersonal.

Advice to Senior Management

Working with such a large company can take some patience. Work within your pod and do the best job you can.

Pros

Good Benefits
Free advanced degrees: they pay for tuition, books, and entry tests
Good work and life balance
Easy to change jobs

Cons

Slow career growth and progression
Promotions are based on service years and not much else
The people in high positions are those that stick around the longest

Advice to Senior Management

Talent based promotions.
Promote less favoritism and politics.
Have better knowledge sharing and mentor programs, sometimes information is hoarded for power.

Pros

Good pay and exposure to really interesting things. Potential for growth in the aerospace field. There are great benefits which is also a plus.

Cons

The company is too big to be run efficiently. I find that much of my day is spent waiting for emails. I thought I was joining a cutting edge team, but was disappointed to find that I am pushing papers around all day.

Advice to Senior Management

Please pay attention to your new graduate employees. There needs to be a new hire program that will ensure new employees meet the people they want to be friends with.

Pros

Good benefits for a large company

Cons

Political, Strikes, Lay-offs, repetitive, outsourcing

Advice to Senior Management

Overpaid

Pros

I liked the travel to foreign countries

Cons

pay scale wasn't competitive and it was super gossipy

Advice to Senior Management

get rid of dead wood

Pros

benefits scure for life and good company

Cons

diffcult with boeing partners and hard to deal with some ppl

Advice to Senior Management

thanks

Pros

They have changed their search system so that if you pass the initial screen (do you meet the education qualifications) your resume definitely gets read by human eyes, so you don't feel so much like you're dropping it down a black hole.

Cons

You will not get feedback on or any response about positions you've applied for but were not selected. I had applied to over 20 positions before I was contacted by a human being.

Pros

Good continuing educations benefits and medical for the entire family

Cons

The company does not have flight benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

relatively good compensation, the longer you work, the better.
opportunities of on hour and off hour education.
good leadership mentor program

Cons

risk of layoff as a new in bad business period.
stable sometimes = boring somehow.
burdens of process and systems
lower raising rate.

Advice to Senior Management

so far my leaders are all task oriented, optimism, inspiring, effective. on time communication on important engineering or business issues.

Pros

- Very good medical coverage
- Lots of employee discounts for cellphone and etc.
- Long Christmas vacation.
- Volunteering is encouraged.

Cons

There's a lot of negatives to say about this place...
- People are very rude, the common attitude is "I'm more important than you" or "I've worked here longer than you". If you have a big ego, this is the perfect place for you.
- There's no such thing as merit, it's all about how long you've worked at Boeing
- People are very incompetent, it makes you wonder how they managed to not get weeded out
- Very conservative and political atmosphere
- Salaried employees STILL have to clock in and be detailed about what they do every hour
- There's no such thing as work-life balance.
- There's no such thing as quality work, as everything revolves around budget/money and deadlines
- Groups are very silo'ed off, it's very hard to communicate and work together with someone outside of your group
- Too many road blocks to productivity, a lot of time is wasted due to overhead, like numerous meetings that always go over time, people purposely delay to make themselves feel important.
- Nothing is well documented, people are very afraid of getting laid off that they keep the knowledge in the only place that's safe, with them only.

Advice to Senior Management

Good luck, you'll desperately need it. Try investing more in retaining employees and keeping them happy.