Working at Boeing Defence UK, Bristol - Anonymous employee Boeing Employee Review

3.0
Mar 14, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Generally nice, professional, hard working people with positive aspirations Good offices and facilities with better than average IT - free tea and coffee on every floor plus very good canteen Flexible if you have to work from home - connectivity good via VPN Genuine concern for individual from line manager (in my experience) - although haven't been involved with HR

Cons

Archaic management hierarchy has evolved on former military and civil service lines - this UK subsidiary of Boeing is becoming MoD in the private sector Just about impossible to develop and compete for promotion on a level playing field with former military staff and external applicants Lots of effort going into re-inventing the wheel, when 'big Boeing' in the US probably has all the answers Bogged down in process for process sake - takes an age to get a simple job done, except when a senior manager is under pressure from his opposite number, in which case it's JFDI (you know what I mean!!)

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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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