Big Bureaucracy to get lost in - RF Engineer Boeing Employee Review

1.0
May 19, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Steady job-you can stay here for 25 years doing the same exact thing over and over again Good benefits

Cons

The company has so much bureaucracy that it is very hard to learn a lot. There are two jokes about Boeing: If you know how to build the right wing, you don't know how to build the left. Because you role is so confined to one specific duty. The other joke is if you get fired from Boeing, you dont have a job. They build their own test equipment and write their own software's which it makes it much harder to align your experience with another company. This is one company where everyone who I've met after I left said was the worst company to work for. You spend so much time on bureaucracy that there's no time to learn anything technical. A lot of people like that because they don't want to deal with the technical side. The recent news with Boeing is not that surprising given the level of talent and all of the inefficiencient bureaucracy at the company.

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

Work-life balance has been great at the Long Beach site. My coworkers are very considerate and supportive. Benefits suck as parental leave and 401k, Roth 401k, and mega backdoor Roth make it so you can really get ahead in terms of retirement building. They are trying to get better in culture and performance rather than some companies that don’t even pretend to care. During the pandemic there was no training. Now there’s some!

Cons

Base pay can be slightly lower than other companies for specific skills. Each site and each organization within each site has its own culture depending on who is the VP/executive team. There are so many executives it’s hard to get things done. Things move very slowly.

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