Boeing reviews

Deeply depressing office environments – suburban or rural locations in run-down buildings with 1980s cubicle layouts. Think Office Space but with crappier coffee. Mind-numbing bureaucratic culture – enormous amounts of red tape that inhibit any one person from making decisions quickly. Sometimes it feels like nothing is happening around here. Legacy business systems that are 4-5 generations obsolete. Hours and hours of pointless meetings per month. Engineering and business leadership seem to think that decisions can only be made in meetings. Tons of deadweight, near-retirement employees who simply don’t care what you need from them. Boeing basically makes it impossible to lay these people off. Salary ceiling that lags behind other Seattle area companies; leadership has stated they simply will "not compete with Amazon, Microsoft and others" on salary leading to lots of turnover for younger employees. Many believe the company will slowly move work to friendlier ‘right to work’ states in the next 25 years. Senior executives are literally treated like royalty; private security, private drivers, fleets of private jets at their disposal. Sort of a bad look when they are always pushing for lower cost operations.

Boeing has a very toxic work culture. It rewards people for exaggerating about the success of the work that they do. Only positive information is shared with management, and failures are blamed on others. Teams point fingers at each other and never self reflect. Some teams are worked into the ground with forced overtime. There is a huge lack of respect for people. Lower level employees are completely ignored when they approach management and higher level engineers with ideas. The leadership culture is very top-down. There is a lot of pressure on management to push forward with projects in order to obtain desired metrics, at the expense of the happiness of employees. I want it to be clear: There are lots of different teams in Boeing, and the culture varies a lot between different manufacturing sites. The 737 site is struggling the most.