Big company, complacent workforce, opportunities for the driven - Senior Program Manager Boeing Employee Review

4.0
Dec 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Incredible opportunities across many divisions; building airplanes; good salaries and benefits; Great opportunity out of college to gain industry experience.

Cons

1. Executives / Senior Managers stay on average 2 years in one position; some willing to make a difference, others go with the flow and won't make ripples to change what is wrong 2. Annual performance review system drives subjective ratings, rankings that must fit into a curve with teams balanced from lowest to highest (someone has to take the low score) 3. Many retired-in-place employees

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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
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Pros

Really great work culture and they support their interns!

Cons

Wanted a different work location but they ended up offering full time position.

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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