Too much focus on cutting costs - Software Engineer Boeing Employee Review

2.0
Feb 17, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are really great, but they have continued to make the employee pay for more of them each year.

Cons

Terrible management(too many chiefs, not enough Indians). They have definitely made it known that they want to cut costs by any means necessary (including laying off older workers just cause they are level 4 or 5). They continue to amaze me that they even function at all. My main job is to write software, and yet, I have to fight to use tools and best practices. Boeing also refuses to pay for quality software developers, or hire new engineers when they desperately need them.

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Cons

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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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