Boeing: a great place to work - Industrial Engineer Boeing Employee Review

5.0
Jun 3, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You have easy access to other opportunities within the company without management looking at you in a bad way. Boeing has the best health, dental, and vision benefits and most of their plans are free for you and your family. Boeing pays for any higher learning education even if it is not related to your career. As a Boeing employee you interact with lots of departments within the company and gives you a broad perspective of how a leading company works instead of being concentrated in one division; they offer different types of rotational programs for you to learn different departments. There is also a huge community composed of different cultures.

Cons

Even though you have the option of moving within the company, you have to stay in your position for one year before you can actually transfer. Since it is the Aerospace and Defense market, it is difficult to make changes and once changes are approved they take a lot of time and pacience to see the results. Also, you might encounter old "traditional" ways "to do things" and experience some resistance, but with the right way to present them there is no doubt changes could be made. Also some of the hours of work might be hard to adjust, like the 5:30 am to 2:00 pm. Waking up that early is hard to most people but leaving at 2 is nice since you have the afternoon to accomplish things.

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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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