Great work/life balance, but not much opportunity to advance - Financial Analyst Boeing Employee Review

3.0
Sep 11, 2018
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Pros

Great work/life balance. Although they pay overtime (equivalent hourly rate from your annual salary + $6.50/hour), they don't authorize OT unless it's critical. They try to have you work no more than 80 hours in a two-week pay period. I often ended up working 9 days out of 10 day pay period.

Cons

Everybody pretty much gets an annual raise of about 2%. If you had an exceptional performance review, maybe 2.5%. That's where the problem is. There is no motivation to work harder for an extra 0.5%. There are 5 levels and a lot of people are stuck on level 3. It's very difficult to get level 4, and level 5's are even fewer. Most level 4's and 5's are jaded older folks in their 50's, with nothing much to offer but stories of "back in the day"/"how it used to be", yet they pull in over $100k while you toil for $70-75k after 7-8 years with the company. I'd say the majority of the people are stuck at level 3 with no hope of advancement/significant bump in pay. You just rotate around every couple of years or so and get your annual 2%. Zero incentive to excel, so many just do the minimum or the ambitious ones leave after 3-4 years.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Very engaging, interactive and collaborative with full time team members

Cons

At times I was a bit alone on my task, and had a hard time getting up to speed with the tech stack and technologies

3.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Easy going, nice benefits, free further education (masters/PhD). Great for an engineer starting out who needs to dip their feet in the pool of engineering for a few years and to get a great 401(k) match at the start of your career (compounding growth). Great for late stage career due to the benefits and solid enough pay in a low cost of living area

Cons

pay-scale lagging, no emphasis on learning new things, no punishment for people who are bad at their job. After working for 4 years, I feel like I should have jumped ship after 2. I haven't been given meaningful work that really challenges me in a while. Now I feel pigeonholed into staying because I have enough years of experience that I really should be considered senior, but I haven't been given work that reflects what I senior engineer should be capable of. Now I'm trying to jump ship before it's really too late. If I stay here another 2 years I think I will be genuinely unemployable and will have to stay at this company forever.

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