Employment at Boeing is a complete waste of your life. - Electrophysics Engineer Boeing Employee Review

1.0
Dec 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The only reason an intelligent engineer would work at Boeing is to work on their own projects. Since at Boeing it doesn't matter if you work or not, show up or not, care or not, or whether or not you are at all intelligent, there is no incentive whatsoever to do a good job. Hence, you can do whatever you want all day. The pros then are 100% life balance, and if you have a lot of outside interests this may be a good place for you.

Cons

If you want to do ANYTHING with your life, you won't do it at Boeing. Boeing is an archaic dump of a company that hopefully will get put out of its misery before the US taxpayers bail it out. Boeing is a big government company; you will only be promoted based on how long you have been there, not based on how smart you are or if you try or not. Everyone at Boeing sits around and chats all day; no one accomplishes anything. After a couple years at Boeing, you'll find yourself just riding out your career (even if you are in your 20s). Most people stay there 35 years and do 0 work. The union also makes it so no one can get fired, no matter how incompetent, and the hard working will never succeed.

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Cons

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3.0
May 27, 2026
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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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