Pros

The intern program is top notch in terms of giving interns access to the entire company. Tours were regularly scheduled and management encouraged us to go on as many as possible. The otehr interns were extremely fun to get to know and also very impressive as young professionals. My work group was consistently helpful in helping me get through my assigned tasks. Close to $20 per hour! Looks great on a resume.

Cons

Large generational gap between older and younger employees. Work responsibities were not challenging or satisfying. Manager was cold, intimidating, and condescending.

Advice to Senior Management

more interaction with middle and upper management would have made my experience better, and left me with a more positive attitude with Boeing management. I did not like my first level manager.

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

good place for starters. every one helps each other to get the jobs done. good tuition support for advancing education. good benefits.

Cons

not much respect by management for employees. constant fear of massive lay offs. low income. no incentive to work harder. not a good balance of life and work.too much politics.

Advice to Senior Management

recognize your employee for hard work. figure out a way to assure them they wont be laid off next month so they can plan their life. care a little about your employees career advancement.

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 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

- Flexible, very laid back work environment
- Great tuition benefits but you have to pay taxes like a bonus on them if you go 5,000$/yr.
- Lots of free time in hands to learn and work on your own projects

Cons

- Clueless managers
- lots of bean counter, and paper shufflers
- Time wasted on virtual meeting about useless processes to be put on lean+
- too many systems doing similar tasks, lots of internals tools tracking others systems
- Project manager = a glorified clerk setting up webex meetings

Advice to Senior Management

Stop worrying about looking good to higher level managers and listen to employees concerns.
Assign meaningful projects, we are not secretaries

Pros

Given a demanding and challenging work statement
Great managers and coworkers
Great support from management in terms of professional development and life outside of work

Cons

Certain IT systems and processes could definitely be improved

Advice to Senior Management

None!

Pros

If you have a job in this economy, be grateful. For union members the benefits are good. The work can be rewarding on its own merits. Boeing is spread all over the world - whatever kind of place you want to live, you can probably find a Boeing site there.

Cons

Defense has been providing most of the profits for years (read the Annual Reports) but Commercial thinks they're the only True Boeing; arrogant in the extreme. "Heritage Boeing" openly treats everybody else as second-class citizens even though they rely on "Heritage McDonnell Douglas" and the other "Heritage" companies to keep the Company solvent year after year. Boeing's share of the worldwide airliner market has been declining for a long time with no end in sight. Unions (factory and office) think nothing of paralyzing strikes at critical moments - remember JSF and 787? A company this big takes a long time to die, but this one can't keep going on as it has been.

Advice to Senior Management

You're not demigods. There was a time when most of management rose from the ranks and you understood what your workers were doing because you'd done it yourself. Now that's not true, so at least take the time to get out of your offices and away from your comfy ring of sycophants to get acquainted with the people who have to implement your commands. Listen to them - they know what's really going on, and 9 times out of 10 it's not what you've been hearing from your advisors!

Pros

Good career to work with a lot of people. Career path and rewards are very good. Key performance is communication. Also, Boeing has compensation plan (very good) as well as other plans like 401(k), stock purchase .....

Cons

The insurance coverage is not as good as it used to be. But long-term disability and short-term disability benefits are good for employees. The nature of the aerospace industry is very ups and downs overtime. That can cause a lot of moving, switching and renewing your career (sometimes). This industry is exactly opposite to health care industry, where it is very stable.

Advice to Senior Management

I hope management will come up with better way to reward employees with hard works, better way to reduce cost and improve efficiency, as now Boeing is facing a lot competition around the world.

Pros

Unbelievable benefits. Some of the most cutting edge products in the world. Relatively easy to transition to new jobs without having to transition to a new company.

Cons

Advancement opportunities are tough. Emphasis more on "earning your stripes" (aka years of service) rather than competence, abilities or importance. Culture isn't always the most inspiring and can be conducive to apathy. Many of the world-class perks are being removed.

Advice to Senior Management

Culture change is first and foremost. Boeing needs an engaging, inspiring culture in order to attract and retain the talent that will allow the company to remain cutting edge in the future.