Good Experience - Flight Attendant United Airlines Employee Review

4.0
Jan 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Based in SFO for 5 years in my 20's. It was a great time in my life, met a lot of interesting people and got to see the world. Great experience to have on the resume, never ceases to impress and fascinate employers looking for people skills.

Cons

United's company culture is pretty negative/jaded. It has gotten better in recent years though. The job itself was fun, but totally exhausting. It wrecked havoc on my mental and physical health. The reality of the flight attendant lifestyle is hard to explain, one has to experience it to truly understand. I had hard core anxiety for most of it. This is a very, very hard job to quit (because there is nothing else like it), yet many stay despite not seeming truly happy. This effects morale big time. Personally, I needed more structure to live a healthy and happy life. I like going home to my own bed, cooking my own food, and not being taken out by jet lag.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

United is genuinely a good place to work in a lot of ways. The dev side has strong leadership, the work is interesting, and there are real engineers doing real things. When I started, I was proud to tell people where I worked.

Cons

The Quality Engineering org has gone downhill fast since the leadership change about two years ago. It's hard to overstate how much the culture has shifted. The focus now is almost entirely on offshoring roles to India, and the US team has been quietly squeezed—people being nudged toward retirement, others suddenly finding themselves with negative performance feedback after years of solid work. It doesn't feel issue-driven, it feels like a headcount strategy with a polite cover story. On top of that, we spent most of last year implementing process changes that look impressive in a slide deck but don't actually move the needle. Meanwhile, the QE org has drifted away from what the dev leadership is actually trying to build. We're solving problems no one asked us to solve while the real priorities sit on the side. It's frustrating to watch, especially when you know what this team used to be capable of. The day-to-day environment has gotten noticeably toxic. People are checked out, the good ones are looking, and there's a real sense that institutional knowledge is being treated as disposable.

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