Boeing reviews

It can be summed up as: "Boeing can put a man on the moon, but they can't put an app in the app store." It is geared for Waterfall/Spiral development (Yeah, there was a push for a move to agile, however its really just planning out the development of the preplanned rigid requirements into sprints, not actually practicing true SCRUM/Agile methodologies). They are very process based and while that works great for manufacturing and some of the physical engineering, it doesn't work well for software development. Each project is different, and the one size fits all processes can make it difficult to be as effective as you could be.

Office Culture: Everything depends greatly on what program you work on and in what role (Design Engineer versus manufacturing engineer versus Customer Support etc etc) but for the roles I've been apart of (DE and Systems Engineer) the work culture seems very "historic" - typical cube farm, spend 80% of day working on computer. Doesn't have that "wondrous" vibe you get when you think of Google (but I've never worked/been to google). Promotions are based on "years of experience" (YoE), it is also based on many other factors but the YoE is the most "black and white" that the approval boards look at , if you dont meet the year requirement you wont get further in the evaluation process. Union - I have held other jobs in different industries where unions were non existent and I felt that I had great job security and benefits. The professional union (in my opinion) seems unnecessary (the union has provided a lot of perks that otherwise wouldnt exist) but the union tension and the propaganda and everything else that goes along with it, as an engineer, I'd rather just not be apart of it.