Boeing Reviews in Seattle, WA Area

Pros

Awesome education benefits! Zero cost, comprehensive medical/dental insurance. The company wants people to enjoy their work, and if they don't, they try to place them in a position within the company that they will enjoy. My family and I have always felt Boeing has taken very good care of us; we feel secure career-wise

Cons

There can be a crazy amount of beaurocracy! There is an aging workforce, so there are many employees (and managers) who are just "camping" until retirement. This makes change difficult, as innovation can feel as if it is discouraged. However, this will pass, and there will be many opportunities for those who are still there.

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage change to happen. Require employees to do some sort of professional development every year; senior employees lack knowledge of current technologies, so they fear it. The result: innovation dies.

Pros

Company really takes you in and makes you feel comfortable as an intern. The Seattle program is fantastic. A lot of responsibility, not like a get coffee kind of internship.

Cons

Job placement after isnt as good as they say it will be. Really make every effort to seek out opportunities and do info interviews with managers.

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

Good pay and exposure to really interesting things. Potential for growth in the aerospace field. There are great benefits which is also a plus.

Cons

The company is too big to be run efficiently. I find that much of my day is spent waiting for emails. I thought I was joining a cutting edge team, but was disappointed to find that I am pushing papers around all day.

Advice to Senior Management

Please pay attention to your new graduate employees. There needs to be a new hire program that will ensure new employees meet the people they want to be friends with.

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

It's a worldwide famous conglomerate, tough to get in, and typically people treat each other okay, most managers are alright, but there are definitely clashes in personality in such a big comapny

Cons

Movement and advancement in the company is very hard. There are way too many people, they seem to promote based on seniority, predominately white male old demographic. Boeing is a bit of a dinosaur, moving at a sails pace dragging its girth around.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to pay more attention throughout and down the ranks. Pay more attention than just to your immediate superiors or employees, get to know all the employees down to the non-manager people.

Pros

Stability, Job satisfaction and challenging work load

Cons

old workforce
poor work environment (facility)

Advice to Senior Management

Reward salaried non-union equal to union

Pros

Good name and nice experience.

Cons

Too bureaucratic, as its huge organization.

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