Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,296 total reviews)
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77% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,296 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Boeing employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace & Defense industry (3.6 stars).

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3.0
Jul 21, 2021
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Pros

get to work on many cool projects and big airplanes with really nice individual people.

Cons

more bureaucracy than you can imagine. every year there's a meeting about reducing costs, ideas get generated, the costs for completing some of the changes gets computed, then nothing changes. my theory is that so many people got their first job out of college at boeing that the whole management system is paralyzed. they can not imagine doing things any different because they've never experienced anything else, no other working experience to draw from. They've lost the ability to optimize their own system.

3.0
Jul 15, 2021
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Pros

I came to Boeing quite some time ago and was drawn by The Boeing Company's reputation for engineering excellence. I admired the company and was proud to say that I worked for the preeminent aircraft manufacturer in the world. That stayed with me and continued to underpin my attitude toward the company. However,....see the 'Cons'

Cons

However, in the wake of the 737 Max accidents, I became more aware of the attenuated focus on engineering and a accentuated focus on stock price. In the shakeup that followed the accidents an even more disturbing corporate philosophy emerged--the woke "philosophy" characterized by an over-emphasis on diversity for diversity's sake, e.g. assigning and hiring with an emphasis on 'diversity' over knowledge, skills and abilities, an activist leadership team speaking out about sociopolitical topics that have nothing to do with building and/or operating aerospace products and the rest of the nauseating, activist follow-the-leader, mindless behavior that characterizes the "movement". In general, this company seems to have lost a focus on what William E Boeing would have considered important and what made this company survive for 105 years. Without a course change, The Boeing Company will not see more than a score or so of additional birthdays.

3.0
Jul 7, 2021

meh

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Pros

Work life balance Great if you want to coast and have an un-stimulating career while watching non performing good old boys move up.

Cons

Pay is mediocre and raises and promotions suck and are very bureaucratic. They also do lots of layoffs and annual bonus is a joke if you're not an executive. There's no incentives to being a top performer. They have a performance rating system that doesn't guarantee bonus or promotion so you can receive the highest possible performance rating multiple years in a row without getting a promotion or raise while low performers get the exact same raises and promotions and never get fired.

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