Boeing reviews

Too strict on professional advancement - they require you to be with the company for a certain amount of time before you can be promoted rather than the work you are actually capable and currently doing. Other aerospace companies are paying more for the same type of work.

1) My organization has a very short term outlook. As in, priorities set by management change on a weekly basis. This I think is in part because Boeing as a whole expects its subsidiaries to perform well each quarter (I work at a Boeing subsidiary). 2) Raises suck. Better than inflation, but not by all that much. Promotion raises are bad as well and even after you've moved up a level, they don't increase your raises by all that much. 3) We are required to take a lot of useless training every year. It's perhaps useful the first year you take it, but not after that. 4) The career ladder grinds to a halt once you hit senior engineering level (level 4 and above, highest non-executive level is 6). Climbing the ladder while remaining technical is extremely hard to do, and requires a lot of ambition and a little bit of luck. Becoming a manager may be a bit easier, but by doing so you sacrifice your ability to do technical work. Boeing expects its managers to be people persons and nothing else. 5) Boeing is mired in bureaucracy. Trying to get things done through official channels (e.g. getting licenses for software) takes weeks at a minimum.