Great company but terrible management at the site in South Carolina has created a culture of mistrust toward leadership - Aerospace Mechanic Boeing Employee Review

2.0
Aug 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great 401k plan, vacation/sick leave and health benefits. Opportunity to receive a paid education Stable work future with a large backlog of airplane orders ensuring no layoffs anytime soon A good start for a young person to learn skills then jump to another opportunity elsewhere with better pay and opportunity for advancement

Cons

Poorest wages in the country for skilled aerospace workers and even worse for trainees. Management and H/R at this site is the worst I've ever seen in 30 years in the aerospace industry Nepotism and favoritism are the only ways to get promoted in this culture. Mandatory overtime ruins work/life balance. Lack of union representation hurts employees overall financial health. At will status creates fear of voicing opinion against unfairness in the workplace.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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