Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here - Engineer Scientist V Boeing Employee Review

1.0
Jun 28, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation package is great Saint Louis is a nice place to live, but there are few decent jobs. Area is part of Midwest's decline.

Cons

Leave your ethics at home. It's all about pumping up your many manager's incentive compensation packages. Nothing else matters. Good-ol-boy, backstabbing, political quagmire. Pick any group at the St. Louis area sites. It's the same. Highly cyclical funding environment littered with constant program cancellations, congressional budget cuts, and constant layoffs they call "redeployments". Extremely poor job stability. Be prepared for the Boeing version of "flextime". They send you home with a laptop and a 24/7/365 job. Plan on doing 3-5 people's jobs. It'll kill you, but It's great for the company's bottom line. Tech fellowship is a political joke. No career advancement unless a numbered parking space is what you want. Techies not valued, generalists are detested. Company is massively top heavy with engineers who are ill-suited for management in management jobs. High potential employees with whom you want to work to advance your career have already left.

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5.0
May 16, 2026
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Pros

Amazing team and management. There is a wealth of knowledge from multi-year veterans to tech-fellows and engineers who have been at this location since it was Douglas Jets.

Cons

Non-production facility. You don't get to see the planes come off the production-line like you would in the Seattle-area locations.

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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