OK place to work if you're just interested in a paycheck and retirement - Software Engineer Boeing Employee Review

3.0
Oct 22, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great health care - Moderate to Good pay - Good educational benefits...they used to have great educational benefits but made major cuts with the economic downturn. You'll owe several years to the company for any educational benefits. - Good relocation benefits - Verify flexible schedules - Fellow employees are generally friendly

Cons

- Innovation not highly encouraged - Get stuck on outdated, multiyear projects and lose all your technical skills; - Retiree heavy; older employees run the company and are set in their ways; not friendly to change - Hard to get promoted; promotions based on years of experience rather than know-how & performance; generally have to move to get a promotion - Lots of accounting and oversight; very - Outdated systems - Little in the way of leadership from managers; they mostly count beans and heckle you whenever they get heckled by their bosses - Performance feedback seems greatly lacking; solid performance not encouraged or rewarded - May get loaned out to other projects for long periods of time

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Excellent work-life balance compared to many aerospace companies. Good benefits (healthcare, retirement, PTO).

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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