Boeing Reviews in Renton, WA

Pros

We build the Safest Airplanes in the world they are amazing

Cons

Commute to some areas can get tiring

Pros

There is a team effort to complete the job so it moves onto the next tool.

Cons

Pressure not to report injuries

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

As an intern you get to experience a wide variety of activities. We were able to go to the customer experience center where they take the airline execs. We also were able to attend the wind tunnel facility, the interiors facility, among many other interesting places within Boeing. As an intern, you are encouraged to do informational interviews and grow your network. I learned a lot and ended my internship experience thinking very highly of the company.

Cons

The company hires the best of the best in interns. The caliber of interns are amongst the best and brightest. The company could improve on converting those high caliber interns into full time employees buy having them leave the internship with an offer in hand.

Advice to Senior Management

Maximize on your intern investment by retaining those high caliber students. You attract the best and brightest... retain them early on.

Pros

Many career opportunities to assist you in excelling. Many great employees that very much willing to teach, mentor and help. Great benefits!

Cons

Outdated software. Firm training needs to be implemented. Work and personal life balance is obscure. Management communication is horrible.

Advice to Senior Management

This "customer" term builds an unhealthy business structure. We are all employees of the same company and should have the same common interest. The company cannot promote its mission and cultural standard when you label your internal relationships as "customers". It promotes the relationship as if you are working for other departments instead of working with other departments.

Pros

good job, plenty to do. Lots of job security, most people here are with compant 20 more years.

Cons

it's a life long commitment. like marriage, you don't think devoice will happen anyday. but politics is play an important role.

Pros

- Employer pays 100% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
- Overtime pay for salaried (exempt) employees working more than 40 hours per week
- Opportunity to work on interesting technology
- Many opportunities for internal job transfer throughout the US and the world
- Union helps ensure we get good raises and health benefits

Cons

- It takes many years to jump to a hirer vacation accrual rate
- If you work in the same type of job for to long you can get stuck in that role and it gets hard to get a chance to try new things
- Management can struggle with workplace rules that apply to non-union vs. union employees

Pros

Lots of room to grow, great benefits, many locations

Cons

Risk and innovation averse culture (at least in HR).
HR supports the customers better than they develop their own.
Boeing likes it's leadership 'home grown' so it's difficult for outside managers to get in

Advice to Senior Management

Keep focusing on staffing and hiring the next generation of Boeing workers so we don't lose our edge.

Pros

Great training opportunities in multiple areas both within your area of employment and outside if you want to learn new skills.
Benefits/Salary package were really good two years ago, but are starting to diminish with the struggling economy.

Cons

Career advancement is possible, but growth is really dependent on where the company needs you to be. Not always the best opportunities to go the path you would prefer to work, you may find yourself working in an area you never intended to be.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more rotation opportunities for employees coming directly out of university. Many would like to explore different areas of business and leverage different skill-sets. It would help retain talent that is not interested in working in a single discipline their entire career.

Pros

Pays well
Benefits are very good

Cons

Old and too many levels of incompetent management

Advice to Senior Management

Go find another job.

Pros

Company values work life balance. Excellent benefits.Company is very generous in providing professional development and continuing education assistance. The longer you are employed with the company, the least likely you will get laid off in an economic downturn.

Cons

Promotion is typically based on longevity instead of merit. Company does not like to fire incompetent employees, including executives. A lot of dead weight.

Advice to Senior Management

Culture needs to change if Boeing wants to remain competitive. Promote employees based on performance rather than the number of years with the company.