Jeppesen Reviews

Pros

pay is good at decent

Cons

none really that i can think of

Pros

Flexible, remote, work life balance

Cons

The pay is not in line with market value

Pros

Good benefits and coworkers to work with.

Cons

Very management heavy constant reorgs.

Pros

They pay decently well. You get to work on technologies most people don't because their seniors are very old and work on ancient stuff.

Cons

Last I was there it was a company that was based in Colorado but had satelite offices in West Linn where I was at. 1. They could not even do basic things like allow you to get software in a timely manner to do your job. I mean you think you would code an app and you would develop it on a regular version of something, nope rocket science there. 2. They were making products in .NET that the main office hated and they had people at their own office trying to sabotage it. I have never been on a team before where I would email people and they would not respond. Then later those same people would take crap about others behind their backs. I once was told I needed to write more tests for something by a person that wrote no tests ever and did nothing they claimed they would help out. Then went over me to complain to me to an architect. Then I had to help QA with the code they broke. It was basically a back stab central company. 3. You could not suggest anything new to anyone there as it was wrong before they even saw it. They did some hokum Akka.NET 3rd party data access to use Postgres and SQL Lite but would not use EF, Dapper, NHibernate, or basically anything you have heard of in the last 30 years. They would have patterns that were near impossible to debug, written by people that no longer worked there. 4. They wanted to use Azure for a deal but then always didn't want to use it. I mean I don't get how in the world you want AWS but then have a deal with Azure through MS and Boeing, then try to thwart it at every turn. I kept hearing we don't want to be ingrained too much in Azure. Well then don't use them. You cannot really leverage cloud answers in GCP, AWS, or Azure if you don't do PAAS. At that point you are just talking about VMs or Docker Containers so the latter is ancient and takes no real development to implement. 5. No one young that had new ideas was ever listened to... I have never seen a company that mixed Ruby and source controls I had never heard of and frowned on YAML and GitHub. Basically if some 50 year old or older dude liked it, he would fight you about Nuget libraries and NPM and anything new. Everything was good back in the Java and C++ days darnit and these new fangled libraries that every other company on earth uses are just a fad.

Pros

Decent pay for not much work

Cons

No growth. Not a job for young people

Pros

The wage and benefits package was very good.

Cons

Being a subsidiary of Boeing, Boeing used the company as a training ground to build up managers even though they don't know the business versus promoting internally at Jeppesen.

Pros

1. Great people to work with. 2. Some very innovative ideas and concepts made into reality. 3. Some great travel, great places, great resources. 4. Was a great long term place to work. 5. A few great managers, but as I said, few.

Cons

1. Very poor management of people and resources. 2. Decisions most often based on emotion and politics instead of good business sense. 3. Outsourced product development to Vietnam and other countries. 4. A brand name now, no longer a real company, it's just a name now folks. 5. Old boys club, your one of the boys or your on your way out. 6. Not a good place to voice your opinion in hopes of making things better. 7. Benefits are the same as everywhere else. 8. Pay is middle of the road.. 9. Most promotions determined on the golf course, not by merit or effort. 10. A clown show at the top, the leadership here couldn't get a job in a real company, that's why they are still here. 11. A company that is completely adverse to risk, their money is in digital charting, and anything outside of that is shutdown, they are a digital publishing company, nothing more. If they weren't a monopoly, they would be bankrupt. 12. Too many layers of management in a 3200 person company, 6, before you even get to Boeing management. Need I say more?

Pros

Too few good things to say.

Cons

Idiots in charge, obviously little industrial experience.

Pros

it is a stable company

Cons

not always have the new technical skill

Pros

Great team to work for and name in the aviation industry

Cons

Very management heavy hard to move up.