Decent place to work, but stuck in the past - Customer Engineer Boeing Employee Review

4.0
Apr 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company offers great medical and educational (tuition reimbursement) benefits. Despite occasional layoffs, jobs are relatively secure. Engineers get paid OT (base rate + $6.50 -- better than nothing). Good leadership and career development opportunities (if you can get into them). About market level pay -- you won't get rich, but you won't starve.

Cons

It's a corporate behemoth, and a 100 year old company. It's stuck in the past with regards to some benefits such as parental leave and virtual work. Layers upon layers upon layers of management mean that your level of impact is relatively small and there is little room for personal innovation. With a company this large, unless you have an executive mentor or someone important who notices you, advancement is extremely slow. A lot of terrible first line managers who have no people skills. The company culture is kind of toxic in many jobs - there are a good amount of people who don't seem to care to excel and get by doing the minimum.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

- Five days per week in the office - Parking can be challenging. - Working across multiple time zones (U.S., Brazil, India) creates coordination overhead - Compensation is not competitive for the Seattle area. - Limited opportunities for meaningful career growth. While there are internal career paths, I haven't found many opportunities that align with the technical challenges and responsibilities I'm looking for - SPEEA's seniority-based structure can slow advancement for newer employees - Programs have very long development cycles, so it can take years to see your work become a finished product - Less exposure to cutting-edge technology than companies focused on emerging products (space, medical devices, AI hardware, quantum computing, etc. Significant bureaucracy and slow decision-making

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