Lots of opportunities, lots of bureaucracy - Customer Engineer Boeing Employee Review

3.0
Jun 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great products, great people, and plenty of opportunities for moving around and trying new challenges.

Cons

So much bureaucracy! So much middle management! The layers of approval required to do ANYTHING is ridiculous. Senior leadership is generally very competent and the working level folks are extremely capable. We’d do well to trim a few levels in the middle to allow better communication, faster decision making, and to show more trust in the working folks.

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Pros

Good work life balance Good benefits - 401K matching, medical insurance, AVIS car rental

Cons

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3.0
May 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Easy going, nice benefits, free further education (masters/PhD). Great for an engineer starting out who needs to dip their feet in the pool of engineering for a few years and to get a great 401(k) match at the start of your career (compounding growth). Great for late stage career due to the benefits and solid enough pay in a low cost of living area

Cons

pay-scale lagging, no emphasis on learning new things, no punishment for people who are bad at their job. After working for 4 years, I feel like I should have jumped ship after 2. I haven't been given meaningful work that really challenges me in a while. Now I feel pigeonholed into staying because I have enough years of experience that I really should be considered senior, but I haven't been given work that reflects what I senior engineer should be capable of. Now I'm trying to jump ship before it's really too late. If I stay here another 2 years I think I will be genuinely unemployable and will have to stay at this company forever.

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