Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Reviews

Pros

Benefits are excellent. The compensate their employees.

Cons

Limited opportunity for advancement in engineering

Pros

Highly educated work environment and friendly individuals.

Cons

A bit slow and monotonous.

Advice to Senior Management

Overall good leadership.

Pros

Employees at the working level are very forth coming and willing to help each other to be successful. Boeing provides a great environment to gain industry experience early in one's career.

Cons

Promotion are very limited. Senior Leadership lacks the ability to make tough decisions. Performance reviews are very subjective, thus compensation is limited and recognition is near non-existence. A very closed shop at the leadership level, leading to ideas and suggestions being dismissed with out consideration.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow for free thought and take some risks. Listen to your employees, they have great ideas and are really interested in making the Company successful.

Pros

Good benefits. Great product created.

Cons

really big company. Things move slowly. Hard to make changes.

Pros

Very professional.
Very efficient.
Very exciting.
Very rewarding.
Good fun and nice people to work with.

Cons

Expectations of management on new employees to come up to speed in very demanding high tech rolls in a very short period of time is unrealistic!

Advice to Senior Management

Provide pre-start up-skill training to new employees prior to deployment in high tech positions.

Pros

Very family-oriented, if you ever need time off for family reasons, they're always willing to offer you that time off, no ifs ands or buts about it. Great benefits as well.

Cons

Very, very large company. Sometimes your contributions don't ever really get noticed. Also, within IDS, there's a lot of politics between 9S and MD.

Advice to Senior Management

9S>MD, MD>9S, the politics behind this whole separation is really annoying and only hinders morale and performance from employees. I've also noticed BCA buildings and equipment are a lot nicer than those of IDS.

Pros

- Flexible work schedule
- Overtime highly discouraged (which is good because you will be aching to run out the door as soon as possible every day).
- Starting pay is good.
- Working for Boeing will teach you to be more careful during your next job search.

Cons

1.) ZERO opportunity for advancement.

2.) Boeing loves to pigeon-hole folks, and assumes that learning new skills or technologies is beyond its engineers.

3.) Ignore what you read elsewhere about Boeing's excellent benefits package. Boeing USED to have great benefits. Medical coverage, tuition assistance, employee recognition, training, and relocation benefits have all been cut to bring Boeing "in-line" with the rest of the industry.

4.) The amount of down time on some projects can be maddening. Plenty of work CAN be done, but the government customer is so obsessed with cost and Boeing with process, that you spend a lot of time sitting on your hands.

Advice to Senior Management

Quit eliminating first-level management positions whenever they are vacated. If nothing else, these are developmental opportunities for future leaders.

Pros

Good benefits and good pension plan.

Cons

Lots of politics.. good ole boy club.. If your not a manager you have no leverage on decisions that are made.

Advice to Senior Management

stop playing favorites. It seems like it is everyone for themselves at this company. Absolutely no teamwork. Stop painting a pretty picture all the time.

Pros

Job Security, Many Different Career Opportunities, Pride in the Products we Make, Benefits Package Is Best In Class, Schooling Benefits, Flexible Schedule...so Long as You do Your 80 Hours.

Cons

Old Guard Management, Moving Up Can Be Tough, Feel Unrecognized as an Individual, You Work Within the Boeing System --- Not Much Opportunity to Be Inventive.

Advice to Senior Management

Dig in and show your employees you can do their job, then lead. Are'nt the best leaders the ones that arent afraid to work side by side with their employees?

Pros

Awesome health benefits, nothing paid out of pocket for the HMO plans. Premiums rose this year, but still Boeing is an industry leader. Learning Together Program provides for tuition reimbursement up to a general level (though not unlimited like it was in the past.) Paid overtime for exempt employees.

Cons

Promotions are difficult to come by. Time in grade, time in grade, time in grade.

Advice to Senior Management

Suggest finding ways to retain the better talent so that they do not leave for better opportunities.