Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,247 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Boeing has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18,247 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 Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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4.0
Jan 26, 2019

Process Engineer

Recommend
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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

3.0
Sep 11, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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