Boeing Reviews in Phoenix, AZ Area

Pros

provides great benefits to their employees. and always treats all employees with respect. work is very interesting and resources are always available.

Cons

hours are too long for the job. has a tendency to run 45 to 50 hours per week on average because of project deadlines.

Advice to Senior Management

i have no advice to give other than that which is listed in the cons section. overall i think the company is very good.

Pros

- Great health care
- Moderate to Good pay
- Good educational benefits...they used to have great educational benefits but made major cuts with the economic downturn. You'll owe several years to the company for any educational benefits.
- Good relocation benefits
- Verify flexible schedules
- Fellow employees are generally friendly

Cons

- Innovation not highly encouraged
- Get stuck on outdated, multiyear projects and lose all your technical skills;
- Retiree heavy; older employees run the company and are set in their ways; not friendly to change
- Hard to get promoted; promotions based on years of experience rather than know-how & performance; generally have to move to get a promotion
- Lots of accounting and oversight; very
- Outdated systems
- Little in the way of leadership from managers; they mostly count beans and heckle you whenever they get heckled by their bosses
- Performance feedback seems greatly lacking; solid performance not encouraged or rewarded
- May get loaned out to other projects for long periods of time

Advice to Senior Management

-Business model is outdated;
- need to focus on innovation, reducing poor processes and legacy systems;
- practice the lean+ that's preached so much;
- don't stifle new ideas immediatelly...that just makes innovative folks leave and go to other companies (or start their own)
- focus on winning contracts, not just maintaining systems that we've already sold

Pros

Good benefits
Good compensation
Friendly atmosphere
Full tuition prepayment

Cons

Can't use vacation in advance of accrual as some other companies allow.
Insurance administration outsourced and extremely unhelpful.
Unlike other companies, celebratory lunches are non-existent.
Recognition usually consists of a "Job well done" speech... and that's about it.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop outsourcing HR so the people working with your employees actually give a darn about keeping them around.

Pros

In Engineering, the people you work with are very knowledgeable and friendly. The normal hours for a Software Engineer are sane (40 per week) and you get paid for working overtime. The benefits are good. The work is usually (though not always) interesting. It's a good feeling seeing something you and hundreds of others designed or worked on fly and how important it is to our customers.

Cons

The management is so worried about "metrics" that they forget about common sense and lose sight of the big picture. Sometimes work is done inefficiently as a result of management not using logic and reason when coming up with processes.

Advice to Senior Management

It's not enough to set goals such as "we want to reduce rework." You actually have to ask why is it happening in the first place and even dig deeper about why it's important. Sometimes making rework easier and faster is a more logical solution than trying to reduce it. This is directed more towards our local management. I'm not sure how well it applies to Boeing overall- it's a very large company.

Pros

Great benefits, paid education and 401k matching cant be beat. Culture is slow paced but advancement is possible if you position yourself visibly.

Cons

I cant really complain. Salary is average for the location. I work Mon-Thurs from home with 3 day weekends. The 2 week Christmas break with pay is always nice..

Advice to Senior Management

No comment at the moment. Stock price has tanked due to the economy and present union strikers. GET BACK TO WORK!!!

Pros

Work is interesting and versatile and we get to see our product completed

Cons

Common Processes can not be used for all of our deversifed products

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the people who have been doing the jobs for a while and know the pitfalls and competition

Pros

Excellent product, support, and quality. Pay is a little lower than other aerospace companies, but they more than make up for with the benefits package. Most of the people are fun to work with, knowledgeable, caring, and proud of our product. Flex schedules are great! Vacation/sick leave/holidays are excellent. Boeing provides a good balance between work & life.

Cons

Cyclical workwise, feast or famine. We either have way too much work, or not enough depending on the economy, airlines, fuel costs, or political parties in office/budget cuts. Military work always goes down during a Democratic majority, because military strength/security is never a priority. Space has taken huge budget cut hits as well.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen more to your employees. We've come a long way from 20 years ago, but we can still do better. Less levels of middle management too- We're all adults here, we don't need to be micro-managed.

Pros

Good Benefits. Easy place to sit around and earn a paycheck without really contributing too much. Learning together program that provides the capability to further education is awesome. If you make a mistake, well you'll get another chance almost guaranteed.

Cons

Not challenging. Management is poor at best and flat out lies to its employees. Difficult to move up if under the age of 40. There are a ton of incompetant people who hold senior engineering and management positions. Inept people are put to the side instead of removed. It is a good old boys club that rewards its own and takes care of them. Directors comonly encourage the lower level managers to play political games instead of solving problems.

There are double standards about how people are treated. People routinely ignore you when they don't like the answers they hear.

Advice to Senior Management

Tell the truth. Promote based upon proven accomplishments and stop playing games.