Boeing is an ok, but not great place to work. - Structural Analysis Engineer II Boeing Employee Review

3.0
Apr 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Boeing has great benefits. They will pay for any college courses you want, whether it is a music class at the local community college or working on a new degree. The classes are not required to be related to the job. Also, the health benefits are better than I have heard of at any other similar company. Another reason to work for Boeing is the vast knowledge base of the engineers there. If you are a young engineer looking to improve your skills and knowledge of engineering what you will learn here is far better than you will in any classroom.

Cons

I felt like the management there has trouble seeing big picture problems. By this I mean they will be so focused on meeting schedule that they will make decisions to complete a task poorly, to check it off their schedule, and that work will need to be redone later. If they saw the big picture, they would of made a better decision a day late and saved a ton of future work down the load. I saw these kind of decisions over and over again. It's not good for moral when management works this way. Another downside at Boeing is the salary. I didn't feel like the monetary compensation was as good as it should of been. I also thought the annual pay raises were a bit low, but the amount of any raises are partially dictated by the enginnering union.

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5.0
May 16, 2026
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Pros

Amazing team and management. There is a wealth of knowledge from multi-year veterans to tech-fellows and engineers who have been at this location since it was Douglas Jets.

Cons

Non-production facility. You don't get to see the planes come off the production-line like you would in the Seattle-area locations.

3.0
May 27, 2026
Recommend
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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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