Stable environment, great benefits, but generally stagnant and not much opportunity for growth - Anonymous employee Boeing Employee Review

3.0
24 Apr 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits in terms of everything from 401K matching to health care to education reimbursement. Depending on where you work, you generally will never need to worry about working overtime. Flex scheduling is very nice for getting errands done. Managers are generally pretty understanding people and make a conscious effort to not practice favoritism and to be respectful to everyone. They practice the attitude of "I'll get out of your way and let you get your work done" which is pretty nice. They will not micromanage you. Once you get a job here, it will be a pretty stable job. Work is rewarding in the sense that you know you are doing work that protects the nation.

Cons

Besides the typical downfalls of a larger company (insane amount of bureaucracy, politics, etc.) ... Since secret work is being done, there are extremely tight rules for almost everything you do there. While these things are necessary, it means that things move even slower than a typical larger company. Boeing, or at least this particular place, is having a very difficult time stepping into the new century in a lot of ways.

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Pros

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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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