Boeing – “OK place to work if you're just interested in a paycheck and retirement”

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- Get stuck on outdated, multiyear projects and lose all your technical skills;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- Outdated systems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-Business model is outdated;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