Boeing reviews

Sluggish to change, likes flavor ot the day

The unfortunate part about engineering at Boeing is that they are moving away from having any core engineering competencies. The design engineers don't design, they look over partner designs (and sometimes fix them). The analysts review stress notes from partners. The production engineers like me don't do any real engineering, we oversize bolts and tell shop to sand out scratches. I haven't found any part of my job to be rigorous or challengining, and find that the longer I work there the more I feel like I'm losing my technical edge. It is such a large "machine" of a company that it is often hard to find a place that you can really excel, especially because nobody has much responsibility (everyone has just a tiny little bite). Also, because Boeing has been warring with its unions for years (and engineers are union in Puget Sound), they are currently warring with SPEEA and retroactively cutting/billing us for the education benefits they already paid out.