Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems Reviews

Pros

Boeing is a diverse company that makes everything from satellites to commercial aircraft and a whole lot in between. It is fairly easy to move between divisions and departments and the employee benefits are fairly generous.

Cons

The company is very process oriented - which often frustrates new hires who want to innovate and act creatively to solve problems.

Advice to Senior Management

The company needs to realize that by attracting "the best" young engineering minds - they are also attracting ambitious individuals to who have skills that are not only transferable to other engineering companies - but other sectors entirely. Therefore, Boeing needs to find ways to new ways to be a stimulating place to work and needs to compensate competitively with other industries and provide more direct paths to non-traditional careers (i.e. a program that transitions engineers to business, etc).

Pros

Great benefits Medical/401k
Good pay
Pride in the products you're involved with
Many locations throughout the world for which you can transfer

Cons

Raises about 3-5% Annually
Difficult to get promoted
Aging workforce means managers are much more experienced and thus its difficult to acquire mgt job
Downsizing currently

Advice to Senior Management

My advice to management would be to put an increased importance on BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. In my experience, BD was pretty unsuccessful and lacked in the proactivity department. More effective BD means more opportunity to bid on work and ultimately more work for Boeing employees.

Pros

Making necessary changes to compete.
Employees empowered.
Feeling of working on something bigger than yourself.
Strong teams and excellent learning opportunities.

Cons

Common big company pitfalls:
Lack of differentiation for top performers.
Poor performers hard to get rid of.
Slow to turn a large organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work, keep challenging the status quo.

Pros

Learning Together Program for educational assistance

Cons

Management is stuck in the past
People are mostly in cuize control
Lack innovation

Advice to Senior Management

Management is stuck in the past and just looks forward to retirement generally speaking

Pros

good benfits and pay. good products to work on

Cons

politics and unstable work envirnmenet. lay-off is quite often

Advice to Senior Management

Let people to grow

Pros

Many product and many opportunites

Cons

Too many process and people that don't direct own hardware or software. Too many mini-cultures and too many organization agenda that confilct with building products. common tools,

Advice to Senior Management

We have too much management

Pros

great attitude of management- benefits are killer- education including textbooks- dental- vision- plus a cool pride at boeing program with wonderful gifts and gift cards!

Cons

stressful- engineering focused culture and attitude. Travel requirements and over time that is crazy. lots of metrics kept and monitoring of web usage.

Advice to Senior Management

get off your hi horse and walk around and see what people are doing. Stop that Hughes attitude about doing your own thing and get with the program.

Pros

The benefits are EXCELLENT.
Interesting Projects to be involved with.
Great training and library resources.
Required corporate training is well done so it is not boring and at times is actually enjoyable to watch.
Fun Boeing Sponsored Events outside of work.

Cons

Poor resource/employee management- layoffs can and will come out of nowhere.
It is difficult getting face time with management team.
Salary offers are very low with little room for negotiation.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to manage your resources better. You hurt Boeing more losing the trained talent you spent time and resources to hire. Make yourself more accessible to your employees to allow them to express their concerns without judgement.

Pros

nobody expects you to work more than 40 hours a week. If you are just looking to cruise through life and make a decent living its not a bad place. They used to have an awesome tuition program for continuing education, but it has been scaled back.

Cons

Not challenging, be prepared for layers of systems engineering bureaucracy, I engineered nothing but paper work. The place is a sinking ship with uncompetitive products run by old fogies that think because the place was innovative in the 70's they can lay back and relax. Non-compete government contracts are the cash cow that keep this place afloat, so managers are big customer butt kissers. definition of the military industrial complex

Advice to Senior Management

You hired very bright people from the best schools for work that high schoolers could do. Expect more from people and challenge them technically. The company needs to take bigger risks and bring visionary ideas to customers instead of uninteresting baby steps.

Pros

Work life balance and flex time, benefits

Cons

You can get very isolated in a particular job function and find it hard to move around.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more job rotations