Processes and outsourcing can be frustrating - Structural Engineer Boeing Employee Review

2.0
Mar 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and benefits. Lots of different areas to work in and jobs to do.

Cons

Process, process, and more process. Outsourcing of the engineering work has really gotten out of hand. Boeing engineers end up doing more project management work than engineering work due to the outsourcing (a positive if you like project management). Like I stated above, lots of different jobs to do, but hard to get out of the one you're in if you don't like it.

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Pros

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Cons

- Five days per week in the office - Parking can be challenging. - Working across multiple time zones (U.S., Brazil, India) creates coordination overhead - Compensation is not competitive for the Seattle area. - Limited opportunities for meaningful career growth. While there are internal career paths, I haven't found many opportunities that align with the technical challenges and responsibilities I'm looking for - SPEEA's seniority-based structure can slow advancement for newer employees - Programs have very long development cycles, so it can take years to see your work become a finished product - Less exposure to cutting-edge technology than companies focused on emerging products (space, medical devices, AI hardware, quantum computing, etc. Significant bureaucracy and slow decision-making

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