Never "One Team" - Engineer Boeing Employee Review

2.0
Sep 29, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you have a job in this economy, be grateful. For union members the benefits are good. The work can be rewarding on its own merits. Boeing is spread all over the world - whatever kind of place you want to live, you can probably find a Boeing site there.

Cons

Defense has been providing most of the profits for years (read the Annual Reports) but Commercial thinks they're the only True Boeing; arrogant in the extreme. "Heritage Boeing" openly treats everybody else as second-class citizens even though they rely on "Heritage McDonnell Douglas" and the other "Heritage" companies to keep the Company solvent year after year. Boeing's share of the worldwide airliner market has been declining for a long time with no end in sight. Unions (factory and office) think nothing of paralyzing strikes at critical moments - remember JSF and 787? A company this big takes a long time to die, but this one can't keep going on as it has been.

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Pros

Get to work on multiple technical projects

Cons

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3.0
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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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