Boeing Programmer Analystst reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(46 total reviews)
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83% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Programmer Analystst employees have rated Boeing with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 46 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Programmer Analystst professionals have a good working experience there. Boeing is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Programmer Analystst professionals compared to other employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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46 reviews
2.0
Dec 4, 2014
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Pros

The people that work there (coworkers/non-managers) are generally very nice to work with. Work can be at times fun and challenging. There are usually opportunities to move around the company to do different type of work.

Cons

Expect below market value salary if you are not an engineer. Getting a promotion is darn near impossible these days. Yearly wage increases barely keep up with inflation unless you are an engineer. The management always mention that there are "challenges" which means less money for regular workers and fat bonuses for the higher ups because they can claim that they are saving the company money. At least in IT, you can look forward to 2 layoff rounds per year which is a morale killer.

2.0
Jun 16, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Very flexible with shifting your schedule around to meet personal needs. Lots of PTO and good benefits and pay in my experience.

Cons

Management is basically only path for advancement. Openly hostile to software development: "We are not a software company". Bureaucratic in the extreme. So many shifting initiatives and jargon and synergistic nonsense. Management zombies trying to push this Koolaid. Suffers badly from diffusion of responsibility.

3.0
Jun 5, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You will be working with some of the best and brightest engineers and scientists in the world. There is an excellent culture of openness, equality, and responsibility that has developed as a result of the executive embarrassments of the early 2000s. Compensation is generally competitive, but raises are poor, and bonuses for non-management are paltry. Monstrous company, lots of positions to grow into for your career, if you can find an open one not actually reserved for someone already in the company (they do try very hard to help laid off employees to find other positions inside the company). Health benefits at one time were considered some of the best in the country, but have been recently reduced to now only comparable to industry competition. Still decent, but not awesome. 401k contribution pretty solid, but again not as great as it used to be.

Cons

Executives have made lots of choices the past few years in the interests of cutting costs (a.k.a. layoffs, site consolidation, benefit reductions). For the defense side of the company, the constant contract cycle can be quite stressful if you get into a situation where your employment depends on the whims of the government customer or the competency of your local leadership, which can often be up-and-comers targeted for leadership positions, and have zero concern for their next opportunity - they don't fight hard or always make choices in the long-term interests of a program. This ship handles like a pig. Change is soooooooooooooooo sloooooooooooooooooooow. IT is pretty far behind the technology curve. Far too much still done in spreadsheets or on paper.

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