Boeing Software Developer reviews

3.9

61% would recommend to a friend

(669 total reviews)
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Kelly Ortberg

81% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Boeing with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 669 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Boeing is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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669 reviews
2.0
Jul 30, 2014

depressing

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Pros

The work can be very interesting

Cons

ancient processes and tools, if they exist. Non-technical management.

4.0
Jul 25, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Fascinating and engaging work until our development contract got near completion, then it got boring. They do (or did) compensate you at a premium rate for overtime if you're a salaried employee. Generally great benefits, although somebody who goes to work for Boeing now doesn't get the same deal as the long-term employees. The company has been shifting more and more to portable defined-contribution post-employment benefits (via the Voluntary Investment Plan, Boeingspeak for a 401(k)) but the long term employees like me got a non-portable pension.

Cons

Work-life balance stinks as you're expected to work until the job's finished. Leadership promises the world to the customer as the aerospace business works contract to contract. At least my management told me to save my money and I took it to heart. Training is good, and if you are temporarily between tasks there was a lot of voluntary training opportunities available.

2.0
Mar 22, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Easy - they really put no stress on you, and have really low expectations Flexible - a lot of managers are really easy-going about flexing time off Healthcare/401k - healthcare is awesome, and their matching is pretty nice

Cons

You have to go through about five people to get even the simplest thing installed on your computer, they have absolutely no trust in their engineers, and they seem to constantly want to take everything good away from the employees, and they have recently decided that they want to pour more effort into stopping people from texting and walking than they do into improving the actual work we produce. Since it's a union, you're guaranteed a raise but getting anything decent is nearly impossible.

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