Not the place for high performers - Programmer/Analyst IV Boeing Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You have to do very little to meet expectations The benefits are great Flex time and work from home 2 days a week is nice

Cons

No point in being a top performer here, there's no bonus incentives, salary incentives give you maybe a 1% bump for being a top performer Groups are almost all stingy about giving out even the smallest reward for going above and beyond. A typical big reward is 100 bucks worth of "pride points" which you can get something like a best buy gift card with I have worked with many groups in my job and this problem is consistent with 20+ groups I have talked to Salaries are almost always well below the median level like 80% of industry median for the 4 years I have been here and that's with getting 3 promotions Only 1 out of every 10 people is technical in IT so you will waste time reporting all your work to you 3 pms, 2 managers, 3 functional analysts, and a customer They don't care how much you work to improve yourself outside of work, this company is entirely about years of experience

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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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