Boeing reviews

Salary is low compared to big tech and standard of living in Southern California. Facilities are old and makes employees feel undervalued. Strong push to come back into office. Lastly, the company kinds of inhibits you. We don’t use modern tool suites and skills that are transferable to other industries. Masters of PowerPoint.

1) Most everyone I met was very uptight. Oddly hostile, defensive, and unprofessional reactions to even the simplest questions. Zero soft skills at all. 2) Most people I met hadn’t worked anywhere else in the last 35 years. They had no ability or interest in examining other ways of working. 3) There was a weird (and very delusional) sense of hubris that their way of doing things is beyond reproach. So much arrogance. 4) Everything felt over-engineered, tedious, too structured, inefficient, conservative, and political. I felt like I was gaslit or patronized when I’d bring it up very basic observations that could remove unnecessary steps. After a while I just became a sycophant because that’s what reduced friction and made the day to day easier. 5) I felt very out of place. I was easily 30 years younger than everyone I worked with. We had nothing in common, nothing to talk about, and very different viewpoints on most things. Boeing was not a fit for me, personally or professionally. I did learn some things there, but there was no way I was making a long term career out of that place. I felt like it led to disordered workplace habits that would be damaging to my career. I felt so much relief when I left.