Boeing Reviews

Pros

There are many opportunities to work with really smart people. If you are willing to work, advancement is easy. done.

Cons

its a big company. it can be easy to become stagnant if you are not ambitious. It doesn't feel personal.

Advice to Senior Management

I don't have any advice for boeing managers. i'm annoyed that you are forcing me to provide information. all done.

Pros

They have better medical benefits than most. They'll pay for any accredited training in your field. Decent vacation time and sick benefits.

Cons

Little autonomy in how you do your job. IT jobs are actively being outsourced and the employees who are lucky (unlucky) enough to avoid layoffs are stuck with the workload of their ex-colleagues.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat the non engineering employees as if they matter, too. Does IT security really lend itself to outsourcing the roles responsible for keeping company data safe?

Pros

Insurance, you get paid even if you don't do anything, it's impossible to get fired, and you will be smarter than most people. If you get in the door you won't do a thing, easy peasy.

Cons

no growth, no real leadership, way too big, you can work as hard as you want but you will never get rewarded for it. the bonuses are a joke you get nothing.

Pros

Boeing has great benefits compared to most companies.

Cons

Boeing can be slow to promote unless you are in a fast track program.

Advice to Senior Management

The best leader Boeing ever had was Alan Mulally. He is charismatic, visionary and dedicated to those he represents. The company has a different flavor without his leadership. Upper management seems to have lost the personal connection to the working employee.

Pros

great benefits, 401K matching program, performance feedback throughout the year, great rotation program, proud of the products, flexible work schedule

Cons

big company, red tape, company directly affected by Government changes - aka defense budget cuts, some old school management still exists

Advice to Senior Management

given open and honest feedback throughout hte year, not just at designated review time, exercise a "real" open door policy

Pros

In general good smart people, good pay, good benefits. Extremely large company with many business organizations around the world. Size creates many opportunities, especially when looking to move to another part of the country..

Cons

Out sourcing to reduce costs and yearly budget reduction at the detriment of employees and services, Up and down cyclical buisiness dependant on commerical airplane sales or government contracts.

Advice to Senior Management

Looks like the relationship with with the unions have have greatly improved, executives need to stop giving lip service about the importance of the employees to the company and prove it by actually maintaining loyal employees.

Pros

You get to work in a huge company - looks good on your resume. Company is doing well and the future outlook looks really good

Cons

There's a lot of old people working there. People that have been working at Boeing for 30, 40 years. Makes for somewhat of a big culture difference.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to allow their employees to be promoted. Also benefits should be made better. Theres a lot of bureaucracy as well

Pros

-Good benefits still even though they are cutting everything
- If you get a good manager you can move around to other areas
- Has lots of upcoming projects

Cons

- Boring work you do not get much opportunity to develop
- Management is really terrible

Pros

Company has funds for new technology and processes. Most of the employees are professional and hard working, however some (including managers) are petty. This is no different from other large organizations. Benefits are great even with phase out of pension for new employees. 401K has excellent match. Medical is great. Salaries are average for non-managers. Working conditions are excellent at my site.

Cons

Unless you are anointed, advancement can be very slow. Factors other than merit guide assignments to challenging work. Most people are little cogs in a big organizational machine. Processes and methods are very company specific and may not be transferable. Unless you are in St of Washington, need to be able to move for advancement.

Pros

Solid benefits, good salary. I know there are layoffs from time to time, but they do really try to protect their employees. General not a bad work environment.

Cons

It is not unusual to see people promoted based on who you know, or simply being female, being a minority so quotas can be met rather than promoting based on skill and ability. I have seen several programs fail because of people promoted beyond their abilities. As others have said, it really does help to know an M level manager, or better yet an E. It is also not unusual to see employees perform well below what they should be and nothing is done about it.

Advice to Senior Management

Many managers could benefit from more training, or mentoring from more successful managers. Some really have poor decision making skills and poor people skills.