Overall, Boeing provides challenging work with a great work/life balance. - Software Engineer III Boeing Employee Review

4.0
Aug 22, 2008
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Pros

There are a ton of varied and technically challenging projects to go around. Overall employees are intelligent, friendly, and helpful. The benefits are great...we get a pension, 401k (with company match of 6%), completely free healthcare, tuition, 10 sick days, paid vacation, and the week of Christmas off. Another nice perk is the ability to telecommute and work flexible hours.

Cons

Vacation takes too long to accrue...we start with two weeks plus the week of Christmas and it takes nine years to move to three weeks. Our facilities are dated (from the 80s) and there are a lot of older employees. Boeing is huge (150,000 ish employees) so the bureaucracy can be annoying. There seems to be a lot of work that is duplicated around the company. We can't keep losing big contracts.

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5.0
Feb 16, 2026
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Pros

Great to work for the summer and opportunities to learn. Lots of exposure.

Cons

Overall dated systems which were concerning

3.0
May 27, 2026
Recommend
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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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