Not what it once was and getting worse - Programmer Analyst II Boeing Employee Review

2.0
Jan 14, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Benefits are Great and are the main reason Boeing gets away with how they treat employees -Cool Products if you're enough to work on them -Exciting work, if you are in the right place

Cons

-You are a number, most importantly, a cost -Projects can lose funding in a snap if someone up top doesn't see the benefit -Constant fear of being laid off (see above...) -Certain organizations, if not most, involve work on legacy systems and technologies that should have been retired decades ago but no one wants to devote budget to technical debt. -The only way to get promoted or a raise (even more so in 2020) is to switch teams or leave the company and come back. Bonus points if you want to be executive as they only come externally. -The company doesn't do much to retain and hire the best talent so many of the good resources are on the way out if they aren't stuck with Boeing LTP or RSU golden handcuffs -Upper management is in a constant state of leaving the company or moving to a different role leaving a Boeing employee with a solid understanding of management's strategy extremely rare.

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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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