Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems Reviews

Pros

Outstanding programs and technologies. Excellent people to work with. Very open culture. The culture is very friendly to technology-focused people. Generally an engineers culture. I am finding out that the compensation package at Boeing is generally superior to other industry competitors. The benefits are pretty good as well. Fully paid medical/dental, pretty good insurance benefits and a generous company match on 401K.

Cons

Big company = big bureaucracy. Slow tempo of projects due to government contracting and complexity of projects. Non-technical people may not feel at home in the technical culture. Also, there are limited advancement opportunities for non-technical folks. All senior managers are engineers.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the business rather than the lawyers. More focused training rather than shotgunning ethics and various "workplace" traning topics.

Pros

Boeing is a good company to work for. The aerospace industry is somewhat stable as a whole. Boeing has great benefits such as 100% tuition reimbursement, a great company match 401(k), matching charitable donations, and the holiday shutdown. Towards the end of the year, Boeing shuts down and employees get a week off work (from christmas to new years). Boeing also understands that the workplace is changing and they offer flexible work schedules such as 4/10, 9/80, virtual office, and telecommuting. To keep employees engaged and continuously learning, Boeing has rotation programs for employees to rotate to different fields and try new careers.

Cons

Since Boeing is a huge corporation, things tend to move slow around here. Boeing, as well as the aerospace industry, tends to be a bit more conservative so there is alot of beauracratic red tape and a lot of politicking involved. There is a big age discrepancy between the older generation and the new college hires. Sometimes these two groups do not see eye-to-eye since the older folks think their way is the best way even though there may be a more efficient way of doing the work. Something must be done to get these two groups to work together more efficiently.

Advice to Senior Management

Something needs to be done to retain entry level employees. Since Boeing provides 100% tuition reimbursement, alot of employees take advantage of this benefit and then leave the company after they complete their degree. In a nut shell, Boeing is paying for the education and other companies are reaping the benefits by attracting these defecting employees. If Boeing wants to retain these employees, they need to pay competitive salaries.

Pros

It's very interesting work and you are alble to work with some of the smartest people in the world.

Cons

It's the most stressful place I've ever worked. You live from contract to contract and the pressure is sometimes too much.

Advice to Senior Management

They really need to pay attendtion to work/life balance. I heard (although cannot confirm), that the president of N&SS - the parent orginization - said that there should be no work/life balance. That you should live to work, because after all you live because you work. He was tired of hearing people "grumble' over the work/life issue.

Pros

one of the best reasons for working here is knowing that you are producing a product that is very important to our wayof life

Cons

low morale, no merit raises, as a tech your word really doesn't mean much as far as input towards the job

Advice to Senior Management

get your head on straight, listen to the people that work for you, they might have a good suggestion!