Boeing Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
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Updated Dec 5, 2023
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Return to all Reviews- 2.0May 20, 2015Paint HangarsCurrent EmployeeSeattle, WA
Pros
Good pay, good benefits, get paid well for doing not hard work
Cons
Poor managing, rude coworkers due to low moral, slowly taking away our benefits, get messed with being switched to different shifts and cities. Hard to have any work life balance when you're not on a consistent schedule/city of work. CEO is a real piece of work. Taking jobs from here and adding to places w/o unions even though we signed a contract saying they wouldn't.
- 3.0Oct 6, 2021Design and Analysis EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Secure projects mean work must stay at work which means a very good work life balance. You have a job that contributes to keeping the nation safe You're in a challenging environment that isn't boring
Cons
Turn over rate is 2 years. Older employees and mangers reap most of the rewards while new people are over worked. It's very sink or swim driven work Everything is behind schedule so there is a lot of pressure to work overtime and cut corners.
- 5.0Feb 16, 2018Procurement AgentFormer Employee, more than 10 yearsSeattle, WA
Pros
Strong support system for all employees. Competitive pay and the Benefits are second to none. Would return to Boeing without a second thought.
Cons
Work life balance can be a challenge in some jobs but not all jobs fall into this category. Big company that takes awhile for changes to happen.
- 4.0Apr 5, 2018Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, less than 1 year
Pros
While working at Boeing you have the opportunity to work on some products that truly change the way people live around the world. That's an exciting thing to be a part of. Boeing also promotes a good work life balance.
Cons
As a young high performing employee, moving around the company is difficult. Boeing does not do a great job at providing early career employees opportunities to move into other areas. This ends up pushing early career employees to leave the company, often after working just a few years. Many of these employees come back later in their career for the stability and work life balance.
3 - 4.0Jul 26, 2023EngineerCurrent Employee, more than 8 yearsNorth Charleston, SC
Pros
Boeing does an excellent job with ensuring their employees have a good work life balance.
Cons
Path to promotion is not always clear and is very dependent on individual first line managers.
- 4.0May 25, 2022Senior Data Applications DeveloperFormer Employee, more than 1 yearBengaluru
Pros
Benefits were good. Manager had good knowledge. Team mates were good. Perks were fine. Good learning opportunity if are placed on a good project. Know more about Aerospace domain.
Cons
Very slow process. Work life balance might be little impacted as meetings were also scheduled off office hours. Most annoying is they would hire you for something and ask to work on something else and if you are not able to perform then you are low rated. As i was interviewed for front end position and was asked to work on JAVA which I had no interest at all. Once you leave the org and if you need support from them for any issue they would take lot of time to respond.
1 - 3.0Sep 4, 2009Anonymous EmployeeFormer Employee
Pros
Career opportunities are rich here with plenty of room for advancement. Management is fair and compensation is very fair indeed.
Cons
Extremely long hours which sometimes take away from that positive work/life balance that many employers are looking to strengthen these days
- 4.0Mar 4, 2013Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 8 yearsSaint Louis, MO
Pros
Great benefits and work environment. Also have a good strong Work / Life balance which I think is better than most companies these days.
Cons
None that I can think of
- 4.0Aug 3, 2019Procurement AgentCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearSeattle, WA
Pros
Great work/life balance with generous PTO and annoy to flex hours within a pay period. Insurance was cut back slightly, but is still top notch. 401(k) is one of the best programs in the nation.
Cons
Large and often bureaucratic; many "coasters" just there to collect a paycheck and nothing more, making change difficult and slow; driven by metrics, creating a lot of non-value-added work.
- 5.0Jan 5, 2012Project Management Specialist IVCurrent Employee
Pros
Great benefits package. Fair place to work with supportive work environment.
Cons
Work life balance is talked about a lot... but not taken as seriously as it could. 500+ hours of OT a year wears on ya.
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