Boeing reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(18,250 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 18,250 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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2.0
Jun 23, 2015
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Pros

The hours are 9-5 with over time if you work more than a 40 hour work week. Depending on your manager, your work schedule can be extremely flexible (with remote work allowed). The tuition reimbursement program is an enormous perk (but read all of the fine print for loopholes).

Cons

Ever since Jim NcNerney has taken over, the company has been increasingly hostile towards all staff (engineers and assembly workers alike). The company has developed multiple sites and pits them against each other to justify paying workers less and to destroy the unions in Seattle. While this may cut costs in the short term, it has created various groups which refuse to share information with each other (leading to a collapse in collaboration and groups claiming the work of other groups). In a professional atmosphere this is EXTREMELY corrosive. Senior level engineers are afraid to share information because upper management will give this information to other sites to spur competition when the sites "bid" for new work. (How do sites within the same company "bid" for engineering work?) Furthermore, their biggest new site, Charleston, has extraordinarily incompetent engineers (but they're cheaper, so why not) that are being propped up by bright contract engineers while upper management attempts to lure more permanent and competent engineers there to train them. In addition, the company managers routinely lie to the engineers about work and future prospects to cut costs. One year they announced that they had to cut back on staff and could not give promotions because there was a shortage of long term work. This was a year after they announced our site would be getting a huge long-term project. Literally a month after they denied promotions and four months after they fired people, a glut of long term work from another existing Boeing program miraculously appeared. When asked about this, the management couldn't give an intelligible answer and said that it was up to authorities higher than themselves.

2.0
Feb 19, 2015
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Pros

- you get paid - you have benefits (which the ACA will render null in a few years) - you have a job

Cons

- this company is stuck in the 50s and fights hard to stay that way - no leadership (unless you define leadership as max bonus acquisition while overworking their limited staff) - pay raises are minimal compared to their profit bragging - no free thinkers allowed - good ol boy system - line level management is unsatisfactory and usually promoted through good ol boy system. - senior leadership consistently lies to employees

3.0
Jun 7, 2014
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Pros

I joined Boeing 18 months ago looking for an employer that was engineering interesting products and that valued quality engineering. Boeing for the most part does these two things well. The quality of the engineering staff is generally excellent, the work is interesting (particularly in Phantom Works), the resources and tools provided to the engineering staff are good but not excellent. Good benefits when compared to other defense industry companys, but only average when compared across all industries. Great place to work for recent grads starting an engineering career. The fully paid advanced education benefit is excellent.

Cons

Don't be suprised if Boeing's initial offer seems very low. If you are experienced, submit a counter offer. The two largest concerns for me are performance recognition and advancement opportunities. I joined Boeing as an experienced engineer, taking a pay and grade cut when I accepted Boeing's offer. A year and a half later and I'm still the same grade and nearly the same salary, even with my manager stating that I should have been hired in one grade higher. The performance management process at Boeing is broken, which is great for an average engineer, but terrible for the high performers. Managers are very constrained on the pay raises they can give to their employees and in-line advancement is done by committee. Boeing is also going through cost reduction exercises with intentional reduction of advancements above grade 3. In-line advancement beyond grade 3 is difficult and beyond grade 4 doesn't happen. For experienced staff, Boeing requires applying for a new position and these positions are often open to external candidates, so they are competitive. It is unclear if Boeing gives internal candidates any preference in the hiring process. It is no different to applying to another position at any other company, so there is little incentive to remain at Boeing if you find a better offer elsewhere. Tools and methods in some disciplines, like structural analysis, lag behind those used in other industries. Boeing doesn't pay for training beyond grade 2, it is on your own time. The engineering responsibilities are strictly separated (particularly loads, dynamics and structural analysis) which leads to engineers who are not well rounded.

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