Great until our contract ran out... - Software Engineer Boeing Employee Review

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.

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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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