Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,244 total reviews)
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Kelly Ortberg

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,244 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 14, 2019

the view of an old timer

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Pros

Very large scale organization...much opportunity for different assignments., even without officially changing roles. Focus on facts and data has taken a lot of emotion out of meetings, improving decision making. Boeing's culture has produced a workforce of overwhelmingly decent, good people. Co-workers frequently become friends.

Cons

With opportunity comes complexity and even chaos. Job satisfaction depends a great deal on where someone winds up. There's been an influx of people, especially managers, from outside the old Boeing who don't share or aren't aware of the values that made Boeing a great place to work. Making someone a manager doesn't make that person a leader and where I work there's a lack of leadership. Buzzwords and catch phrases aren't the same as management and even the best metrics aren't a substitute for judgment or business acumen.

2.0
Mar 20, 2019

Wake up call

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Pros

Good salary, decent benefits decent career advancement

Cons

Zero work life balance, unethical behavior, poor Management decisions, sketchy quality control

4.0
Jan 26, 2019

Process Engineer

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Pros

OK benefits, 401k match is 50% but only up to 8% of salary, annual bonus about 3%. As an engineer, environment is 'sea of cubes', so looks at engineers as round pegs to fit round holes. Lots of opportunities to talk to others and look for other roles, so don't have to be 'locked in'. Agile is being pushed, but not gracefully or appropriate to positions or problems. Somewhat typical big company approaches to everything. Individual positions good or bad or in between, totally dependent on managers and colleagues so generalization probably impossible. Overall OK place to work, but not outstanding.

Cons

Salary seems soft, with very limited to no negotiation room in initial hiring. Past that, the usual steps. No longer any useful innovation reward for patents, etc. 401k match is small. Big pressure to save costs, but this hasn't really been extended to most intelligent hiring decisions or similar. Many people care a lot, but management won't take most improvements forward

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