Boeing Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

Great benefits package.
Education expenses paid up to $15000k per year.
Very understanding of work/life balance.
Some very interesting programs.

Cons

Very large organization; slow moving.
Some programs use outdated development methods, choose poor tools.
Lack of transparency in policy changes.
Degrading education reimbursement program (recently introduced limitations).
Relatively low pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to focus more on getting in-house development work.
Return the education program to what it was as it is a great draw for ambitious employees.
Provide more transparency in policy changes. Seek input form your employees or at least give us a heads up.

Pros

Benefits, and the opportunity to work with good people

Cons

performance compensation and promotion structure is rigid without the flexibility to identify high potentials and reward for work above and beyond expectations.

Advice to Senior Management

Look to build a young nucleus that will be the foundation for Boeing in the future.

Pros

- A lot of areas within sites and enterprise wide for growth and expansion.
- Very interesting products that you can see everywhere.
- Fortune 500 company that will look good on the resume.
- Young employees are generally motivated to change the culture for the better.

Cons

- Many of the older employees are there only because they are waiting to retire. These employees are also reluctant to change. "We've been doing it this way for x years"
- True changes to culture are difficult to come by because the company is so large.
- I choose Boeing over other companies because of their Learning Together Program. However, they recently slashed that program from 100% reimbursement to $15k cap/year. By doing so they have stuck people that are currently in programs with huge tuition bills.
- Old boys club.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop micromanaging and trust that your employees aren't going to screw you over. Revert back to the old LTP or remove the 2 year retention clause.

Pros

Excellent benefits, good training programs, interesting projects if you can get on them, flexible hours, satisfaction at being part of a top-flight team.

Cons

Only one: Boeing is intensely pursuing outsourcing every function possible. IT, accounting, HR, engineering (Did you see Clinton at the design center in Moscow?). Boeing is now giving away American jobs as trade offsets to places like India and Russia. Work there at your own risk.

Advice to Senior Management

You had better be prepared for the fallout when your outsourcing efforts require massive re-hiring of a real staff that speaks English and Aerospace.

Pros

Great Benefits
Great Job Stability
Great Job Flexibility

Cons

Mundane at times
Experience level is everything with respect to job level and promotion opportunity
Company is overstaffed
Process is everything

Advice to Senior Management

Do not exclude employees based on lack of experience alone (A person with 10 years of experience is not considered for a job requiring 12 years of experience?)

Pros

Flexible, secure and easy going.

Cons

challenge for career advancement, usually only based on seniority. People not recognized enough.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time helping employees grow.

Pros

The benefits, especially the education reimbursement program.

Cons

Lack of technically competent engineers. The systems integrator role Boeing plays reduces the amount of exposure to young engineers.

Advice to Senior Management

Go back to the basics and get young engineer's hands dirty. Otherwise they will become less valuable and move to other companies.

Pros

It's a very large corporation with a wide variety of work available. If you're unhappy on your program or team, you may be able to find something more to your liking without having to leave the company.

Their education program is top notch. Boeing pays nearly all costs involved in any eduction you receive while under their employment. There is a bit of fine print, but so long as your field of study is related to your position, the fine print is short.

Cons

It's a very large corporation with processes defined for nearly everything including, to an extent, career advancement and pay.

Advice to Senior Management

None I can think of.

Pros

Really interesting work. Work life balance is good

Cons

Too much red tape. Hard to get anything accomplished. Hard to get a promotion.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the dead weight and pay your better performers better.

Pros

Lots of opportunities to rotate into different areas of the company. International company, lots of resources and good process guidelines. Great place for a young person to learn the ropes from older and retiring engineers. Boeing puts a lot of emphasis on hiring a diverse workforce. major educational benefits: company pays for graduate degree and other professional certifications

Cons

While Boeing tries hard and implements good anti-discrimination policies, the culture is still pretty conservative, especially at the higher levels. Granted, things have changed a lot since the 90's and much more diverse people are climbing the ranks into top management. It still has a way to go. Great place to work for the first 3-5 years of your career. But consider leaving if you want to move up in your career. Also, if you don't like the aerospace/defense industry, then none of the big 3 defense contractors (Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop) are a good place for you to work. Sometimes project deadlines get in way of quality for customer. Overtime work hours tend to take toll on employee morale and motivation.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more responsibility to lower level engineers and provide a mentorship program. Consider a less conservative mindset in the work place. Given the change in culture and composition of the workforce, consider fostering the creative mindset and culture in highly successful Millenia friendly workforce companies like Google.