Family Friendly Company - Senior Software Engineer Boeing Employee Review

3.0
Jul 29, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Incredible level of flexibility and work life balance. -A culture of compassion and understanding for family and life related events. - Wonderful co-workers with managers and leadership who put your livelihood above anything else. -Solid health care benefits, high 401(k) match, lucrative PTO and time flexing. -Meaningful work and decent career flexibility.

Cons

- Abysmal IT infrastructure tied to horrific approval processes and lead times. - Terrible salary progression for inexperienced and timid engineers. - Endless chair-warmers who spew jargon for a living. - Overly political leadership. Saving face here is often more important than owning up to problems. - Not good for young creative thinkers willing to work their hearts out. Boeing is a very old, mature business, that focuses on stability. This is great for experienced engineers who maintain a family and are satisfied with their careers. However, this culture is soul crushing for young ambitious engineers.

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Cons

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3.0
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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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