Boeing Reviews in Seattle, WA Area

Pros

They have changed their search system so that if you pass the initial screen (do you meet the education qualifications) your resume definitely gets read by human eyes, so you don't feel so much like you're dropping it down a black hole.

Cons

You will not get feedback on or any response about positions you've applied for but were not selected. I had applied to over 20 positions before I was contacted by a human being.

Pros

Good continuing educations benefits and medical for the entire family

Cons

The company does not have flight benefits.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

Great salary and benefits. Good stuff

Cons

Don't work very hard. Kinda boring

Advice to Senior Management

keep it up

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.

Pros

Great lower-level management, experienced and interesting people to work with, semi-casual work environment, lots of resources and fun events to participate in, programs for just about everything, flexible work hours (or work from home), fair compensation. Lots of teamwork in both design decisions and implementation. Project managers' openness towards using new technologies is great for the younger people.

Cons

Lots of bloat within the company. Some of the teams are just too large. Setting up accounts on internal infrastructure can be difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't let your teams get too large, and don't hire people to do jobs that can be done by a script.

Pros

As an engineering based firm, anlalytics are worked to make sure good talent is discovered, harnessed, and groomed for long term benefit to the employee and the firm. Satisfactory pay, opportunities for utilization of skills, great work/life balance, and dailiy challenges and opportunities for success make it a great place to work.

Cons

Departmental accountability lacking which undermines collective team performance, and it takes a nimbleness and initiative to overcome it. Employees not always feeling management support, which appears to be an inability to drill down the connection between management and

Advice to Senior Management

Employees not always feeling management support, which appears to be an inability to drill down the connection between management and employees on a functional level, although they do this well on a mission and vision level.

Pros

Benefits and flexibility are great.

Cons

Everything else. Career path, employee respect, technical skill appreciation. If you are a sycophant, you will flourish. Lots of meetings, documents, process. If you like technical achievement, look elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Go somewhere else.

Pros

Great trust given by the company to the individual to complete work assigned. Tremendous freedom to make work happen.

Cons

Some coworkers are dead weight and need to be replaced with more aggressive, can-do attitudes.

Advice to Senior Management

Build those 787's Baby!

Pros

relatively good compensation, the longer you work, the better.
opportunities of on hour and off hour education.
good leadership mentor program

Cons

risk of layoff as a new in bad business period.
stable sometimes = boring somehow.
burdens of process and systems
lower raising rate.

Advice to Senior Management

so far my leaders are all task oriented, optimism, inspiring, effective. on time communication on important engineering or business issues.

Pros

Education and medical benefits are good but rapidly on the decline. Some extremely smart people and some excellent projects. The aging staff provides great opportunity for growth.

Cons

About 40 percent of the workers carry the rest of the company. The company is farming out large amounts of labor to avoid the expense of internal overhead. Many of the workers are retired in place and lack motivation. Unfortunately the complexity of the product requires much of their undocumented knowledge.

Advice to Senior Management

Strategically hire new talent and actively task older workers with training these new employees. Reduce overhead by simplifying job structure and eliminate no value positions such as Supplier program managers and other non product related positions. Lower overhead reduces engineering cost and makes the company more competitive. Simplify company structure and eliminate managers that do noit have direct reports. Many of the issues revolve around Extremely complex processes and nonvalue added workers.