Good benefits and stable job is a trade off against career advancement. - Process Engineer Boeing Employee Review

4.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits including fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance (depending on which plan you choose). Jobs are available doing almost anything you can imagine since the company is so large. Also there are a very wide variety of programs and locations. The work is fairly stable compared to many start up businesses.

Cons

Union membership is required (for engineers in certain regions like the pacific northwest). Structured hierarchy for job levels doesn't leave much room for advancement. In other words advancement is largely dependent on years of experience not necessarily skills. Vacation is very limited until you have been at the company for a long time. For instance you only get 10 days a year until you have 4 years of service. And you max out at 20 days per year.

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3.0
May 27, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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