Boeing reviews

Boeing is a large bureaucratic company with red tape everywhere. If you are the type of person who feels a need to see the direct impact of their contributions and wants to be engaged with all stages of a project's life cycle, Boeing may not be your place. A young engineer at Boeing, such as me, should expect their involvement to be narrow and focused. Additionally, a young engineer will have a lot of oversight. But this is expected, when dealing with complex systems like aircraft and spacecraft, a highly organized approach is needed. One additionally note: in recent years Boeing has move away from the manufacturing of many of the required components. At this point they may be thought of as a large scale integrator. A lot of the old timers are bitter about the loss of Boeing’s “real” manufacturing abilities. Some have a more thoughtful outlook and consider the change to be needed as it allows Boeing to leverage the abilities of more specialized manufactures and to remain competitive on a global stage.

BUREAUCRACY, IT systems are poorly integrated with one another, slight presence of "good ole boy network," unequal workloads, small yearly raises, in the Integrated Defense Systems division layoffs are a potential danger because of cyclical nature of the defense industry, Government is the main customer of IDS division and is often difficult to work with, working for boeing sometimes feeling like working for the government