Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

Employee benefits can't be beat! Fair salaries, amount of paid time off, and flexible schedules.

Cons

Comes with many of the headaches commonly associated with a very large corporation.

Advice to Senior Management

Many employees never have an opportunity to meet the customer but would like to know how the customer views the products that we have helped to develop. Please don't forget to provide us with feedback, both good and bad!

Pros

High ethical standards
People first Customer Always values
Interesting products and markets

Cons

Still working to operate as One Boeing

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on growth

Pros

Boeing has one of the best benefit in terms of medical care, education and employee assistant. Pay is not the best compared to competitors but it is competitive enough. The internal TotalAccess network is great and helps employees in all aspects in terms of work and personal life.

Cons

The management system seems to be broken due to lack of leadership, motivation, skills and long term strategy. Management is focused on short term profit by trying to get most out of the customers (gov't) but loosing sight of long term relationship resulting in loosing the follow on contracts. Hence many employees lost jobs and the best engineers left to avoid long term instability.

Advice to Senior Management

Compensate the best/good engineers to keep them and go back to the technology company that Boeing used to be. Sr. and middle management, who are focused on personal and short term profit is heading the company to the wrong direction. Focus on the long term strategy and repair the brand image.

Pros

- Large network of resources
- Nice campus and facility
- Some educational expenses paid for
- Flexible work schedules
- Several effective management systems already in place

Cons

- Top Heavy: Lots of managers, few actual workers
- Accordingly, lot's of senior engineers, very few junior engineers (and managers).
- Few opportunities for career advancement within location, especially for young professionals.
- Constant changes in benefits and policies (e.g. full tuition reimbursement to partial)
- Highly Bureaucratic - very difficult to implement new ideas. Lots of channels of approvals to go through, extremely slow process. Not recommended for innovative thinkers.
- Politics Politics Politics - You really need to learn who to impress and how! Ladder climbing is extremely competitive and definitely not based on merits and performance alone. Tenure also plays an important facet in advancement.
- Diversity for the sake of diversity. Let's just say, key minorities (e.g. age, sex, race) are placed in specific roles, while the general/average population is for most part not at all diverse

Advice to Senior Management

- Provide opportunities for growth, specifically for young workers.
- Accordingly, build a more effective and fair employee review process that makes it look like the company actually cares (i.e. not a simple check in the box type system).
- Allow employees to take risks and hold them more accountable (i.e. less micromanagement).
- Reward employees for educational or skills training growth and advancement.
- Provide more periodic moments of "effective" feedback, citing examples of good uses of strengths and weaknesses.
- Set realistic goals and objectives.
- Don't always beat around the bush with political answers- Be honest and more concrete so we are not left in limbo!!!
- Lead by example. If you expect something from us, expect from yourself!

Pros

Great people to work with

Cons

Some positions are not filled by the most qualified people.

Advice to Senior Management

Need new visionaries to create new products and opportunities

Pros

decent pay and benefits, beautiful area

Cons

too many bosses, too much bureaucratic nonsense, cold environment, not a fun place to work.

Advice to Senior Management

no advice, my bad experience is more about chemistry.

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

Benefits, benefits, benefits! Their great.

Cons

Aerospace job security is directly proportionate to global economic fluctuations, and unfortunately, war.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to keep your people working; share your resources of qualified aircrafters among corporate divisions when possible. If your laying off in Seattle or Long Beach, offer relocation to willing employees if hiring is going on in San Antonio or Charleston - that kind of loyalty really matters to the people you employ!

Pros

flexible hours, interesting work, great benefits

Cons

You can easily get pigeon-holed in the one task you do.
people are either super technical with no business acumen whatsoever, or managers with very little to no technical knowledge. However, if you can mix both skills you become a star employee!
Processes take ages to complete

Advice to Senior Management

make sure to keep your good people and fire the incapable/lazy ones. Don't just close programs altogether, select among programs.